Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Piedmont \Pied"mont\, a. [F. pied foot + mont mountain.] (Geol.)
   Noting the region of foothills near the base of a mountain
   chain.

Source : WordNet®

Piedmont
     n 1: the plateau between the coastal plain and the Appalachian
          Mountains: parts of Virginia and North and South
          Carolina and Georgia and Alabama
     2: the region of northwestern Italy; includes the Po valley
        [syn: {Piemonte}]