Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: calais
IPA transcription: [kəl'eɪ]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: Calais
    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
Usage examples
  • None of the French porters knew him; not a single official at Calais cared a fig for Mellersh.
  • He had gone to Calais, had been in London this morning . . . he . . . the Scarlet Pimpernel . . .
  • Percy had started for Calais, utterly unconscious of the fact that his most relentless enemy was on his heels.
  • Surely at the present moment you must hope, as I do, that the enigmatical Scarlet Pimpernel will start for Calais to-day--"
  • Chauvelin, on the other hand, would post to Dover, charter a vessel there, and undoubtedly reach Calais much about the same time.
  • Once in Calais she would not know where to find her husband, whilst Chauvelin, in stealing the papers at Dover, had obtained the whole itinerary.
  • Once in Calais, Percy would meet all those who were eagerly waiting for the noble and brave Scarlet Pimpernel, who had come to rescue them from horrible and unmerited death.
  • But after having been very sick, just to arrive at Calais and not be sick was happiness, and it was there that the real splendour of what they were doing first began to warm their benumbed spirits.
  • He has gone, CHERIE . . . actually gone . . ." added Suzanne excitedly, "he was in London this morning; he will be in Calais, perhaps, to-morrow . . . where he will meet papa . . . and then . . . and then . . ."