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Picardy

NOUN
  1. a region of northern France on the English Channel

How To Use Picardy In A Sentence

  • La Tour 1704–1788, the son of a musician, was born in Saint-Quentin, a small town in Picardy, France. A Tour de Force, Honest and Engaging
  • To prepare for his journey he wrote to Ratramnus, a monk of Corbie in Picardy, asking for information regarding the dog-heads, whom he thought he might encounter. August 4th, 2009
  • “poor and honest” at Rollot, a little bourg in Picardy some two leagues from Montdidier. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • It resulted in the development of three great salients, the first in Picardy and in the direction of Amiens along the Somme, which was launched on March 21st; the second on the Lys, which was launched on April 9th; and the third which is called the Oise-Marne salient, launched on May 27th. History of the World War An Authentic Narrative of the World's Greatest War
  • I am anxious lest the little line I wrote you may bring you back; reassure me and tell me you are still at Marseille [the château de Marseille in Picardy]. The Ruin of a Princess
  • In Picardy where seigneurial dues were also minimal, seigneurs used their privileges to lease out logging rights in forests at a time when wood prices were skyrocketing.
  • She asked us if we could play "Roses of Picardy" like Red Nichols and His Five Pennies, because it was her very favorite song. The Body Ricardo
  • We rush through Picardy, which is mainly yellow, and then past Strasbourg which is largely green. Travel news, travel guides and reviews | guardian.co.uk
  • Hart has no big-picture sense of the place of the Great War in the narrative of the 20th century — he is as committed to the mud of Flanders and Picardy as his forebears were. The Pity of War
  • The Magistrates caused cottages and workshops to be erected on a piece of unoccupied land near Edinburgh, where the street appropriately called Picardy Place now stands, ” the greater number of the weavers having come from Picardy in France. James Nasmyth: Engineer, An Autobiography.
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