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ARMORICA (AREMORICA), the Roman name, derived from two Celtic words meaning the " seaside " (ar, on, and mor, sea), for the land of the Annorici, roughly the peninsula of Brittany. At the time of the Roman advance on Gaul there were five principal tribes in Ar ...

... ot in purpose, from the uncompromising iron-mounted receptacle of earlier n. 19 ARMORICA— ARMOUR PLATES generations. During the i6th century, when the surging impulses of the Renaissance had died away, the armoire relapsed into plainness, its proportions incre ...

... ut the chain consisted of two arcs, the western of which is called by Suess the Armorican chain and the eastern the Variscian. The two arcs together, which were undoubtedly formed at the same period, have been named by Bcrtrand the Hercynian chain. Everywhere ...