Savoyard (savoiard)

and n. [F. Savoy ard, II. n. A native or an inhabitant of Savoy, a former duchy lying south of Lake Geneva, afterward a part of the kingdom of Sardinia, and in 1860 ceded to France. It forms the two departments of Savoie and Haute-Savoie. Savoy Conference, Declaration. See conference, declaration. Savoy medlar. A European shrub or tree, Amelanchier vulgar is, of the Rosaceæ, related to the June-berry or shad-bush.