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Bois-le-Duc

British  
/ bwa lə dyk /

noun

  1. the French name for 's Hertogenbosch

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Winckel sent the two young fellows, twenty-one and eighteen years old, to school again, this time at Bois-le-Duc.

From Erasmus and the Age of Reformation by Huizinga, Johan

The band was far away; Ulenspiegel made across the fields in his pilgrim’s robes, bought a horse, and by highways and byways he came like the wind to Bois-le-Duc.

From The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere by Coster, Charles Th?odore Henri de

By the way, I heard from M. Bois-le-Duc by yesterday's mail.

From Marie Gourdon A Romance of the Lower St. Lawrence by Ogilvy, Maud

She did not answer the question but said abruptly: "M. Bois-le-Duc tells me you are going away."

From Marie Gourdon A Romance of the Lower St. Lawrence by Ogilvy, Maud

From thence he would go by side roads to Bois-le-Duc as fast as his horse would carry him.

From The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the land of Flanders and elsewhere by Coster, Charles de

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