1) Clovis culture. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 ...Clovis culture, a group of Paleo-Indians (see Americas, antiquity and prehistory of the) known through artifacts first excavated in the early 1930s near Clovis, N.Mex.... 2) Clovis I. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 ...Clovis I, (klo´vis) (KEY) , c.466-511, Frankish king (481-511), son of Childeric I and founder of the Merovingian monarchy. Originally little more than a tribal chieftain,... 3) Clovis. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000 ...Clovis, city (1990 pop. 30,954), Curry co., E N.Mex., 104 mi/167 km SW of Amarillo, Texas, and c.105 mi/169 km NE of Roswell, N.Mex.; 34°24'N 103°12'W. RR junction.... 4) Clovis. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000 ...Clovis (KLO-vis), city (1990 pop. 50,323), Fresno co., central Calif., suburb 7 mi/11.3 km NE of downtown Fresno, near Dry Creek; 36°49'N 119°42'W. Calif. State Univ.... 5) Clovis. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 ...Clovis, 1 City (1990 pop. 50,323), Fresno co., S central Calif., near the foothills of the Sierra Nevada range; inc. 1912. It is a growing trade center in a farm... 6) Clovis 2. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth
Edition. 2000. ...b.c., distinguished by sharp fluted projectile points made of chalcedony or obsidian. After Clovis1, New Mexico.... 7) Clovis I. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth
Edition. 2000. ...King of the Franks (481-511) who unified Gaul as a single kingdom and established his capital at Paris. His name, Gallicized as Louis, was given to 18 later French... 8) Clovis. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth
Edition. 2000. ...California in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada near Fresno. It is a processing center. Population: 50,323. 2. A city of eastern New Mexico near the Texas border.... 9) Toads. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898 ...The device of Clovis was three toads (or botes, as they were called in Old French), but after his baptism the Arians greatly hated him, and assembled a large army... 10) Li-Flambe. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898 ...The banner of Clovis miraculously displayed to him in the skies. (See TOADS.) 1... |