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noun the plateau between the coastal plain and the Appalachian Mountains: parts of Virginia and North and South Carolina and Georgia and Alabama
noun a gentle slope leading from the base of a mountain to a region of flat land
noun the region of northwestern Italy; includes the Po valley
originDerived from Italian Piemonte (“mountain foot”), from Medieval Latin Pedemontium, Pedemontis, from Latin ad pedem montium.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0