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a wordLieu-dit

Lieu-ditFrench lieu (place) + dit (said, called) — 'the place they call'

A named place on the cadastral map — the official French term for a piece of ground people call something. Every climat is a lieu-dit; not every lieu-dit carries a cru rank.

Root. French lieu (place) + dit (said, called) — 'the place they call' Tradition

Facts

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regionBurgundy, Alsace
confidencemedium · updated 2026-09-16

Its kin

wordClimatBurgundy's own word for the ranked version.and of this page it says: The wider French term a climat is a particular case of.wordMonopoleWhat a lieu-dit is called when one owner holds it all.

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Where it came from: Cited a source we name · Harvested pulled from an open dataset · Tradition what the tradition says, hedged · Inference this project's reasoning · Field somebody stood there. This record as JSON.

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