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Pas de Calais

1

[ pahduh ka-le ]

noun

  1. French name of the Strait of Dover.


Pas-de-Calais

2

[ pahduh-ka-le ]

noun

  1. a department in N France. 2,607 sq. mi. (6,750 sq. km). : Arras.

Pas-de-Calais

/ pɑdkalɛ /

noun

  1. a department of N France, in Nord-Pas-de-Calais region, on the Straits of Dover (the Pas de Calais ): the part of France closest to the British Isles. Capital: Arras. Pop: 1 451 307 (2003 est). Area: 6752 sq km (2633 sq miles)
“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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Example Sentences

Two men have been arrested at Oignies, Pas de Calais, for selling stones as coal.

There was no adoration for her little girl who occasionally wrote from the Pas-de-Calais and asked her for money.

In the Pas-de-Calais the fabrication of lace and cambrics was obliged to stop before a fall of twenty-five per cent.

Politics do not apparently run very high among the miners, either here or in the adjoining region of the Pas-de-Calais.

The managers of the mines in the Pas-de-Calais had resolved to increase the output of their mines.

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