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Vaison

proper noun

Vaison is masculine in French.

former name of Vaison-la-Romaine (town in Vaucluse)

Related: Saint-Marcellin-lès-Vaison, Vaison-la-Romaine

Borrowed from Occitan Vaison, from Latin Vasiōnem. Attested on the Cassini map (1740s).