Langue d'oc

long dok, n. collective name for the Romance dialects spoken in the Middle Ages from the Alps to the Pyrenees—the tongue of the troubadours, often used as synonymous with Provençal, one of its chief branches. The name itself survived in the province Langue doc , giving name to a cla of wines.— Langue d'oui (long dwē), also Langue d'oil , the Romance dialect of northern France, the language of the trouvères, the dominant factor in the formation of modern French. [O. Fr. langue —L. lingua , tongue; de , of; Prov. oc , yes—L. hoc , this; O. Fr. oui , oïl , yes—L. hoc illud , this (is) that, yes.]