La Manche
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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But I happened to be there with a French fisherman, while making a Radio 4 documentary, and was told a gale was starting out in the middle of La Manche, invisible to us.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 15, 2020
Ostert, a nimble stag, was chased by English huntsmen nine years ago into what they call the English Channel and Frenchmen call La Manche.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Sleeue.”—Entirely obsolete in English, but France still knows the Channel as La Manche.
From The Battaile of Agincourt by Richard Garnett
The departments of Calvados and La Manche greeted them with the utmost enthusiasm.
From The Happy Days of the Empress Marie Louise by Arthur Léon, baron Imbert de Saint-Amand
When Napoleon was threatening to invade England, he was represented trying to get into a coat, but one of the sleeves utterly baffled him, whence the point: "Il ne peut pas passer La Manche."
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
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