CALAIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Calais mean? 

• CALAIS (noun)
  The noun CALAIS has 1 sense:

1. a town in northern France on the Strait of Dover that serves as a ferry port to England; in 1347 it was captured by the English king Edward III after a long siege and remained in English hands until it was recaptured by the French king Henry II in 1558

  Familiarity information: CALAIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CALAIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A town in northern France on the Strait of Dover that serves as a ferry port to England; in 1347 it was captured by the English king Edward III after a long siege and remained in English hands until it was recaptured by the French king Henry II in 1558

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

port (a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country)

town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)

Holonyms ("Calais" is a part of...):

France; French Republic (a republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe)

 Context examples 

“By these ten finger-bones! there were some fine bowmen at the intaking of Calais,” said Aylward.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Those regions where the heaviest rainfall were found include Nord-pas-de-calais, Picardy, Isle of France – where Paris is located, Champagne-Ardenne, Burgundy, Centre and Franche-Comte.

(France's Flooding Rains Examined by NASA’s IMERG, NASA)

One said she lived in the South Foreland Light, and had singed her whiskers by doing so; another, that she was made fast to the great buoy outside the harbour, and could only be visited at half-tide; a third, that she was locked up in Maidstone jail for child-stealing; a fourth, that she was seen to mount a broom in the last high wind, and make direct for Calais.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I am told that at Calais they made dints in the wall that a man might put his head into.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was he, sire, who won the golden crown which Queen Philippa, your royal mother, gave to be jousted for by all the knights of England after the harrying of Calais.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If Bordeaux and Calais be gone, then what is left for England?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Far down the course of time I can see her still leading the nations, a wayward queen among the peoples, great in war, but greater in peace, quick in thought, deft in action, with her people's will for her sole monarch, from the sands of Calais to the blue seas of the south.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Calais too.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But Calais?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A stream of returning knights, of wounded soldiers, and of unransomed French noblemen, had been for a quarter of a century continually pouring into England, every one of whom exerted an influence in the direction of greater domestic refinement, while shiploads of French furniture from Calais, Rouen, and other plundered towns, had supplied our own artisans with models on which to shape their work.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)