Crécy

[ kres-ee; French krey-see ]

noun

1. Also Cres·sy []. a village in N France, NNW of Reims: English victory over the French 1346.

adjective

1. (sometimes lowercase) (of food) prepared or garnished with carrots.

Crécy

/ kresi; ˈkrɛsɪ /

noun

1. a village in N France: scene of the first decisive battle of the Hundred Years' War when the English defeated the French (1346) Official nameCrécy-en-Ponthieu-ɑ̃pɔ̃tjø Former English nameCressy

Example Sentences

“The decision to suspend an active search is never easy and is only made after exhaustive efforts to find the missing person,” Capt. Stacey Crecy, commanding officer of Coast Guard Sector Los Angeles-Long Beach, said in the release.

From Los Angeles Times

While none of the offerings directly references the pandemic, one of my favorites, Geoffrey de Crécy’s “Empty Places,” drifts past on a melancholy, meditative mood and world-without-us images.

From New York Times

The courtesan Odette de Crécy, the passion of Charles Swann, one of the central characters in the novel, was once a great beauty who entranced Paris but in senility is relegated to a corner of her daughter's fashionable salon where she is a figure of ridicule.

From Salon

While the cast is larger than can be taken in at a single reading, its principal players are indelible: Charles Swann and Odette de Crécy, whose wretched affair is described in “Swann’s Way”; the Duke and Duchess of Guermantes, whose circle the narrator works so hard to penetrate; the Baron de Charlus, a refined but poisonous gargoyle whose sexual proclivities fascinate our hero; the pretentious Verdurins; the perplexing Albertine, an object of sinister fixation for several volumes.

From Washington Post

Yet the story of Charles Swann and Odette de Crécy is nowhere near over.

From Washington Post