Armorica (Celt. are-mor, 'before the sea'), the country of the Armorici, who, in Cæsar's time, occupied the coast of Gaul between the Seine and the Loire. Later the name was confined to Brittany (q.v.).
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 1: A to Beaufort, p. 428
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