What's the difference between gaul and merovingian?
Gaul
Definition:
(n.) The Anglicized form of Gallia, which in the time of the Romans included France and Upper Italy (Transalpine and Cisalpine Gaul).
(n.) A native or inhabitant of Gaul.
Example Sentences:
(1) He suspects Hannibal did not intend to come this way, but was forced to avoid the lower cols to the north because of the hordes of Gauls massing there.
(2) They include the so-called Ludovisi Ares, a Roman copy of a 4th-century BCE Greek original, and the Ludovisi Gaul, part of the same group as the better-known Dying Gaul in the Capitoline Museums.
(3) Two other strains from dairy herds were classified as bovine viruses related to the bovine B223 strain reported by Woode and co-workers (G. N. Woode, N. E. Kelso, T. F. Simpson, S. K. Gaul, L. E. Evans, and L. Babiuk, J. Clin.
(4) As the Carthaginian army ascended from the Rhône valley in Gaul, they were harassed and attacked by mountain tribes who, knowing the territory, set ambushes, dropped boulders and generally wrought havoc.
(5) A. O'Brien, J.C. Quintero, W. A. Schleif, K. F. Freund, S. L. Gaul, W. S. Saari, J. S. Wai, J. M. Hoffman, P. S. Anderson, D. J. Hupe, E. A. Emini, and A. M. Stern, Proc.
(6) Fuchs bristles at that suggestion and makes an interesting analogy with a French comic book series and the indomitable Gauls fending off Roman occupation to explain Leicester’s mindset.
(7) Just as Caesar wrote of Gaul in his day, "Omnia [Begg] divisaest in partes tres ... "--Stage I, Stage II, and Stage III.
(8) In the 2004 UK inquiry into the sinking of the Gaul trawler in the Barents Sea, test were carried out on a scale version of the vessel to assess how it would have responded to rough weather.
(9) Such stereotypes have been the jambon-beurre of foreign correspondents in France (bread and butter not being fancy enough for the French) since Julius Caesar dashed off his conquest of Gaul , and never fail to raise a smile at the English breakfast table.
(10) At a recent visit to the Triple Pier Expo, a weekend market on three vast piers that extend from Manhattan into the Hudson River, an ebony art-deco carving of a slave in relief, reminiscent of the Dying Gaul, was attached by a gold chain to a pipe rack.
(11) In a previous study, different U.S. isolates of bovine rotavirus were studied for their serotypes and cross-protective properties (G. N. Woode, N. E. Kelso, T. F. Simpson, S. K. Gaul, L. E. Evans, and L. Babiuk, J. Clin.
(12) It's the 35th adventure that translator Anthea Bell has undertaken with the world's most famous Gaul, and it has transported them to Scotland on a mission to save the Picts from imperialists and usurpers.
(13) MacAroon, the wronged Pictish prince, has a large tattoo on his chest that causes some curiosity among the Gauls.
(14) Even more gallingly for the Gauls, while visits to North America were also down last year by 7.5% to 3.4 million, Spain, Belgium, Italy and Norway all saw the number of British visitors rise, with 2.3 million more Britons visiting Spain than France last year.
(15) I live in the last small corner of Gaul still holding out against the Romans.
(16) The Mistral, the biggest French-built ships after the aircraft carrier the Charles de Gaul, is 199m long, weighs 22,000 tonnes, and can carry 177 crew, 16 heavy helicopters or 30 light, 70 armoured vehicles such as tanks, 450 troops and four landing craft.
(17) He regularly spoke in the Commons on post office issues and on electoral reform, working time, fairness at work, fishermen's compensation and the loss of the trawler Gaul.
(18) Like the last village in Gaul that resists the occupying forces of the Romans, there will always be a group of smokers who do so not only because it can relax one wonderfully (think of all the soldiers who smoke) but precisely because it enrages an enormous number of busybodies.
(19) They cleared the land to protect their armies from ambush – but they knew it also hurt the tree-loving Gauls and the Druid-led tribes they wished to subdue.
(20) Photograph: Oskar Reinhart Foundation Son of Nazi governor returns art stolen from Poland during second world war Read more Nine have been restituted – including Susanna, a sculpture by Reinhold Begas, which was found in Berlin’s National Gallery; August Gaul’s Resting Lion from 1903, also found in Berlin; a Roman child’s sarcophagus from the end of the second century AD; and Lady with Red Blouse, a pastel drawing of Mosse’s sister Emilie by Adolph Menzel, found in Winterthur, Switzerland.
Merovingian
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the first Frankish dynasty in Gaul or France.
(n.) One of the kings of this dynasty.
Example Sentences:
(1) 89 individuals of a Merovingian series from Weimar and Mühlhausen were examined for caries incidence, tooth abrasion, periodontal disease and dysgnathia.
(2) The findings of macroscopic radiological and scanning electron microscopic examination of skeletal material from two south German Merovingian populations and two pre-Columbian population groups from the south west of North America are presented.
(3) The skeletons of the Merovingian population from Kleinlangheim (Southern Germany) were examined by macroscopic, radiological, endoscopic and microscopic techniques.