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
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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
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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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