Courtrai
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Before long, the young artist Dirk Renswoude is entertaining two guests: the self-satisfied aristocrat Balthasar of Courtrai and the angelically good-looking Theirry of Dendermonde.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 4, 2019
Seven hundred golden spurs, from slain French knights, were carried from the battlefield to Courtrai Cathedral as a thank offering.
From Time Magazine Archive
And Gates, forced down near Courtrai, burned his bullet-riddled plane under his captors' noses; later escaped by jumping from a prison-train window in a German tunnel.
From Time Magazine Archive
And what is the value, think you, of a fine cart of ash-wood, finely painted in crimson, and furnished with a hood of Courtrai cloth for protection from sun and rain?
From The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the land of Flanders and elsewhere by Coster, Charles de
Indeed so little do I trouble that I mistake Courtrai for Roulers, but it makes but little difference.
From 'Green Balls' The Adventures of a Night-Bomber by Bewsher, Paul
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