Picardy
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Jane Keles had been due to travel to France next week to stay at a mobile home she owns with her husband in Picardy, in northern France.
From BBC • Apr. 22, 2026
Gen. Yahya Saree, a military spokesman for the Houthis, identified the ship attacked as the bulk carrier Genco Picardy.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 17, 2024
In 1872, the Louvre lent the painting, “Diana and Endymion” by Jérôme-Martin Langlois, to the Picardy Museum in Amiens, France, where it remained until disappearing at some point by the end of World War I.
From New York Times • Jan. 18, 2023
With his thick glasses, neatly trimmed goatee, and sleeve tattoos, the 40-year-old runs a farm-to-table restaurant in the center of Arras, a small, charming city in Picardy.
From Slate • Apr. 23, 2022
There was the man with the wooden leg winding his barrel-organ, and the tune of Roses in Picardy hummed in my head against the jolting of the car.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
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