Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- A city of northern France on the English Channel north-northwest of Amiens. Of Celtic origin, it is the leading fishing port of France. Population: 45,100.
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Examples
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In August, Europa acquired car maker Renault's convention center in Boulogne-Billancourt, a suburb of Paris, for its Europa Fund III.
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The first stage is a light run through northern France to the coast in Boulogne-sur-Mer.
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After he had won his advantage over Edward VI., he escaped the war which seemed almost inevitable, recovered Boulogne from the English by a money payment, and smoothed the way for peace between England and Scotland.
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Thus some three weeks were spent, partly at Havre, partly in Boulogne, before the unit found itself established in the Golf Hôtel at Le Touquet.
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If we accept, an officer will come for us on the morning of March 1st to our hotel in Boulogne and take us by motor, some forty miles, to the guest-house where G.H. Q. puts up its visitors.
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All I have here written about would be easy, feasible, and requisite if a large French Camp was forming in Boulogne, Cherbourg & Co., but, as yet, John Bull's steam is hardly up.
The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B.
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The most interesting people in Boulogne were the poissardes, or fisherwomen; they are of Spanish and Flemish extraction, and are a clan apart to themselves.
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I had spent in Boulogne years ago, and going over again in my mind the time
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"It amounted to tacit acceptance that the Boulogne was a whites-only stand."
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"It amounted to tacit acceptance that the Boulogne was a white-only stand."
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