Pas de Calais
French name of the Strait of Dover.
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a department in N France. 2,607 sq. mi. (6,750 sq. km). Capital: Arras.
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How to use Pas de Calais in a sentence
Two men have been arrested at Oignies, Pas de Calais, for selling stones as coal.
There was no adoration for her little girl who occasionally wrote from the Pas-de-Calais and asked her for money.
Our House | Elizabeth Robins PennellIn the Pas-de-Calais the fabrication of lace and cambrics was obliged to stop before a fall of twenty-five per cent.
Politics do not apparently run very high among the miners, either here or in the adjoining region of the Pas-de-Calais.
France and the Republic | William Henry HurlbertThe managers of the mines in the Pas-de-Calais had resolved to increase the output of their mines.
France and the Republic | William Henry Hurlbert
British Dictionary definitions for Pas-de-Calais
/ (French pɑdkalɛ) /
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)
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