Pas de Calais
noun
French name of the Strait of Dover.
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Pas-de-Calaisnouna department in N France. 2,607 sq. mi. (6,750 sq. km). Arras.
Pas de Calais
1 American
[pahduh ka-le]
/ pɑdə kaˈlɛ /
noun
Pas-de-Calais
2
American
[pahduh-ka -le]
/ pɑdə kaˈlɛ /
noun
Pas-de-Calais
British
/ pɑdkalɛ /
noun
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A look at the dark blue areas on the map shows how far they have spread from their strongholds in the deep south and Pas de Calais in the north.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2022
He misled the Germans about the time and location of the invasion and helped convince his German handlers that Pas de Calais was the target of the main attack.
From Fox News ● Jun. 5, 2019
His greatest success was persuading German commanders that the Allied invasion would come in France’s Pas de Calais region, far north of the real Normandy landing beaches.
From Seattle Times ● May 30, 2018
The shortest shipping distance from England to France was to the Pas de Calais region.
From Inc ● Jan. 19, 2012
Nor are naturalised Benefactors of the Species forgotten: Priestley, elected by the Orne Department, but declining: Paine the rebellious Needleman, by the Pas de Calais, who accepts.
From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle
“Fortitude” is based on a true story about British intelligence agents who convinced Adolf Hitler that Allied forces were planning to attack a French coastal area called Pas-de-Calais on D-Day, instead of Normandy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
Three deaths in northern France's Pas-de-Calais region were "likely" caused by the heatwave, the local authorities said.
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
Pierre-Henri Dumont, MP for the Pas-de-Calais region, told the BBC: "Any attempt to cross the Channel in this way is very, very dangerous - but at this time of year, it is even more deadly."
From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2024
Jacques Billant, the prefect for the Pas-de-Calais area, told reporters in Wimereux that several people had fallen out of the boat.
From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2024
Most of the region from the Somme to the mouth of the Yser is comprised within the two French departments of Pas-de-Calais and Nord, and the Belgian province of West Flanders.
From The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) From the First Battle of Ypres to the End of the Year 1914 by James Edward Parrott
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