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n. - A town in northern France on the Strait of Dover that serves as a ferry port to England.

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  • When the good news was told, the joy in Calais was great.
  • Calais from the English, and thus put an end to English territorial holdings on the Continent.
  • Summers he spent in Calais in research and writing while also serving as chaplain to Swedish seamen in the area.
  • As on Queen Mary's heart the word Calais, so on hers Brockhurst, she sometimes thought, might be found written when she was dead.
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