Douai

American  

[doo-ey, dwe] / duˈeɪ, dwɛ /

Or Douay

noun

1. a city in N France, SE of Calais.

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Douai British  

/ dwɛ, ˈduːeɪ /

noun

1. an industrial city in N France: the political and religious centre of exiled English Roman Catholics in the 16th and 17th centuries. Pop: 42 796 (1999)

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Example Sentences

The automaker is considering merging the plant in Maubeuge, where over 2,000 people work, with a nearby plant in Douai to produce electric cars and light commercial vehicles.

From New York Times • May 29, 2020

An existing theory is that a group of boys from Douai School in Berkshire started singing the song at the same match, when England were playing Ireland in the Five Nations Championship.

From BBC • Feb. 6, 2015

Boarding school with the Benedictine monks at Belmont Abbey, near Hereford, and Douai in Berkshire, meant sporting nights listening to Raymond Glendenning and Eamonn Andrews on the radio under the pillow.

From The Guardian • Jan. 25, 2013

An appeals court in the city of Douai, north of Paris, held a closed-door hearing a month ago and will tell the lawyers its decision on Wednesday.

From Reuters • Nov. 26, 2012

In the morning the columns of Douai and Ladmirault, their artillery and their waggons, had met each other, and become entangled on the Place du Trocadéro.

From History of the Commune of 1871 by Lissagary, P.