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Nouvelle-Écosse

/nu.vɛ.l‿e.kɔs/

proper noun/nu.vɛ.l‿e.kɔs/

Nova Scotia (a province in eastern Canada); Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia peninsula (a peninsula on the coast of the Atlantic, comprising most of the province of Nova Scotia; Nova Scotia peninsula)

From nouvelle (feminine of nouveau (“new”)) + Écosse (“Scotland”); calque of Latin Nova Scotia.