Clovis is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CLOVIS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• king of the Franks who unified Gaul and established his capital at Paris and founded the Frankish monarchy; his name was rendered as Gallic `Louis\' (466-511)
• flint projectile dating from the 10th millennium BC
ADJECTIVE:
• as in clovis point, a stone age fluted point on stone tools
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• clovis pointflint projectile dating from the 10th millennium bc

How to use CLOVIS in a sentence

• After their overthrow by Clovis, king of the Salian Franks, they ceased to exist as one nation, and were dispersed over Gaul, Switzerland, and Nether Italy.
• From the city gates the royal party passed on to the great national cathedral of Notre Dame, and from thence to the church dedicated by Clovis, the first Christian king, to St.
• Genevieve, the especial patroness of the city, and repeated her thanksgiving before the tomb of Clovis, the founder of the monarchy.
• Clovis had succeeded about the year 485 of our era, in destroying the last remnants of Roman domination in Gaul.
• The Merovingian princes, with the exception of Clovis and a few others, were mere barbarians, although converted to a nominal Christianity.
• Alaric, Totila, and Clovis thus amassed enormous wealth, without troubling themselves to place the government finances on a satisfactory basis.
• According to tradition, this vial was brought from heaven by a dove at the time of the consecration of Clovis.
• Fredegaire, the chronicler, relates that Clovis thus pulled out a hair in order to do honour to St.
• Clovis induced Ragnacaire to join him in a campaign against Syagrius.
• Whilst prosecuting his course of plunder and war in Eastern Belgica, on the banks of the Meuse, Clovis was inspired with a wish to get married.
• He afterwards told Clovis all that had passed and what Clotilde suggested.
• Gondebaud, not daring to refuse, and flattered at the idea of making a friend of Clovis, promised to give her to him.
• Clovis went to the aid of his confederation and attacked the Allemannians at Tolbiac, near Cologne.
• Clovis at the same time had his self-respect flattered in a manner to which barbaric conquerors always attach great importance.
• He had refused, twenty years before, to march with Clovis against the Roman, Syagrius.
• Clovis, who had not forgotten it, attacked him, took him and his son prisoners, and had them both shorn, ordering that Chararic should be ordained priest and his son deacon.
• He had served Clovis against Syagrins, but Clovis took no account of that.
• A few months afterwards, on the 27th of November, 511, Clovis died at Paris, and was buried in the church of St.
• In 530, two sons of Clovis, Childebert and Clotaire, arranged to attack Burgundy and its king Godomar.
• Taken all in all, he was, next to Clovis, the most distinguished of Frankish kings, and the last really king in the line of the Merovingians.
• The only thing Clovis wanted of the gods was aid in destroying his enemies.
• The heroic strain brought by Clovis was quickly enfeebled and debauched by luxury.
• When Clovis made gifts of large estates to reward, or to purchase, followers, Roman or Gallic, he laid the foundations of a system which would prove fatal to his successors.
• Not one of the successors of Clovis or of Pepin had so intelligently grasped the sources of permanent growth in a nation.
• At the death of Clovis his sons split up the kingdom, and from that epoch a deadly war was waged between the rival kingdoms of Neustria and Austrasia, the west and the east.
• Remi found no difficulty in persuading Clovis, after the fortunate event, to adopt the Christian creed.
• It is reported that Clovis, the first Christian king of France, marching against Alaric, king of the Visigoths, sent nobles with presents to be offered at the tomb of St.
• Clovis was the first king who fancied it, and settled there.
• But when our Frenchman told us a story of her latest favourite, King Clovis, she had the air of being asleep behind her thick blue veil.
• I remember the Scottish monks who were established at Peronne in the reign of Clovis.
• The flower was said to have been figured on a shield sent down from heaven to King Louis at Clovis, when fighting against the Saracens.
• In those days, Clovis, King of France, was a heathen, with all his knights.
• Theodoric fought the battle of Verona, and founded the Ostrogothic Kingdom in Italy twelve years later, in 493, and thereupon married the sister of Clovis.

Similar words containing CLOVI without suffix s

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