Pas de Calais

¹

[ pahduh ka-le ]

noun

1. French name of the Strait of Dover.

Pas-de-Calais

²

[ pahduh-ka-le ]

noun

1. a department in N France. 2,607 sq. mi. (6,750 sq. km). : Arras.

Pas-de-Calais

/ pɑdkalɛ /

noun

1. a department of N France, in Nord-Pas-de-Calais region, on the Straits of Dover (the Pas de Calais ): the part of France closest to the British Isles. Capital: Arras. Pop: 1 451 307 (2003 est). Area: 6752 sq km (2633 sq miles)

Example Sentences

Two men have been arrested at Oignies, Pas de Calais, for selling stones as coal.

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There was no adoration for her little girl who occasionally wrote from the Pas-de-Calais and asked her for money.

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In the Pas-de-Calais the fabrication of lace and cambrics was obliged to stop before a fall of twenty-five per cent.

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Politics do not apparently run very high among the miners, either here or in the adjoining region of the Pas-de-Calais.

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The managers of the mines in the Pas-de-Calais had resolved to increase the output of their mines.

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