Courtrai
Americannoun
noun
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Before long, the young artist Dirk Renswoude is entertaining two guests: the self-satisfied aristocrat Balthasar of Courtrai and the angelically good-looking Theirry of Dendermonde.
From Washington Post • Jun. 4, 2019
And Gates, forced down near Courtrai, burned his bullet-riddled plane under his captors' noses; later escaped by jumping from a prison-train window in a German tunnel.
From Time Magazine Archive
Seven hundred golden spurs, from slain French knights, were carried from the battlefield to Courtrai Cathedral as a thank offering.
From Time Magazine Archive
Another day, Egmont being athirst had stopped in front of the inn In ’t bondt verken, the Piebald Pig—kept by a woman of Courtrai, a pretty piece, called Musekin, the Little Mouse.
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
I found I had landed somewhere south of Courtrai, and was about twelve kilometres due north of Tournai.
From Men, Women and Guns by McNeile, H. C. (Herman Cyril)
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