Douai

American  

[doo-ey, dwe] / duˈeɪ, dwɛ /

Or Douay

noun

1. a city in N France, SE of Calais.

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Douai British  

/ dwɛ, ˈduːeɪ /

noun

1. an industrial city in N France: the political and religious centre of exiled English Roman Catholics in the 16th and 17th centuries. Pop: 42 796 (1999)

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Example Sentences

"Renault ElectriCity" pools three of the group's plants in northern France, Douai, Ruitz and Maubeuge.

From Reuters • May 31, 2023

Dino Scala's lawyer Margaux Mathieu said he had confessed willingly and wanted to explain himself to the court in Douai in northern France.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2022

Mr. Strauss-Kahn, 63, and his lawyers vowed to challenge the ruling from the court of appeal of Douai in northern , which announced the decision without an explanation.

From New York Times • Dec. 19, 2012

Young men were trained for the priesthood at newly created English seminaries in Douai and Rome under the supervision of their spiritual leader, William Allen, formerly Principal of St Mary Hall, Oxford.

From The Guardian • Aug. 17, 2012

More in the centre, at the Boulevard Haussmann, Douai pressed close upon the barricade of the Printemps shop, and with gunshots dislodged the Federals who occupied the Trinité Church.

From History of the Commune of 1871 by Lissagary, P.