CRECY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Crecy mean? 

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

1. the first decisive battle of the Hundred Years' War; in 1346 the English under Edward III defeated the French under Philip of Valois

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CRECY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The first decisive battle of the Hundred Years' War; in 1346 the English under Edward III defeated the French under Philip of Valois

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

battle of Crecy; Crecy

Instance hypernyms:

pitched battle (a fierce battle fought in close combat between troops in predetermined positions at a chosen time and place)

Domain region:

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

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

Hundred Years' War (the series of wars fought intermittently between France and England; 1337-1453)

 Context examples 

“You remember, Samkin, that it was wetter than this on the morning of Crecy, and yet I cannot call to mind that there was aught amiss with our strings.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The sports of the lists had done much in days gone by to impress the minds of the people, but the plumed and unwieldy champion was no longer an object either of fear or of reverence to men whose fathers and brothers had shot into the press at Crecy or Poitiers, and seen the proudest chivalry in the world unable to make head against the weapons of disciplined peasants.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I know not, young sir; but I can only say that on the eve of Cadsand, and on the eve of Crecy, and on the eve of Nogent, I dreamed of a red cow; and now the dream has come upon me again, so I am now setting a very keen edge to my blade.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

For who could be named with Chandos, the stainless knight, the wise councillor, the valiant warrior, the hero of Crecy, of Winchelsea, of Poictiers, of Auray, and of as many other battles as there were years to his life?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The old soldiers of Crecy, of Nogent, and of Poictiers were glad to think that they might hear the war-trumpet once more, and gladder still were the hot youth who had chafed for years under the martial tales of their sires.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)