Charente
Americannoun
noun
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a department of W central France, in Poitou-Charentes region. Capital: Angoulême. Pop: 341 275 (2003 est). Area: 5972 sq km (2329 sq miles)
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a river in W France, rising in the Massif Central and flowing west to the Bay of Biscay. Length: 362 km (225 miles)
Example Sentences
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Thousands of jobs are at stake in the Charente region alone, he says: "Cognac is a product that's made for export."
From BBC • Mar. 12, 2025
Lie With Me, which was a No 1 bestseller in France, follows a first love between two teenage boys, Besson and Thomas Andrieux, a fellow pupil at his lycée in the Charente in south-west France.
From The Guardian • Aug. 18, 2019
All rural France resented the agricultural-subsidy cutbacks initiated by Brussels, but even though they do not directly affect Charente grape growers, other regulations do.
From Time Magazine Archive
He has been called mysterious, elusive and unknowable�as convoluted as the great Charente River, which flows through his native town.
From Time Magazine Archive
The senator of the Charente Inf�rieure, in his one short term of office in the Bourgeois ministry, had made no mark.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" by Various
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