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Calais
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Definition:A coastal city in northern France. It was nearly completely destroyed by German forces during WWII.
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He stood on the top of the cliff, regarding the doubtful, clear coast of Europe. The town of Calais, with its docks and spires and rooftops and bare trees rising into the wartime sky, lay still in its Sunday-morning quietness, just like the town of Dover below him.
Irwin Shaw. The Young Lions, p.389 (1948)
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Rum: Truth is, I don't know the way to the Cape of Good Hope anyway.
Blackadder: Well, what were you going to do?
Rum: Oh, what I usually do. Sail 'round and 'round the Isle of Wight 'til everyone gets dizzy. Then head for home.
Blackadder: You old rascal. Still, who cares; the day after tomorrow we shall be in Calais. Captain, set sail for France!
BBC. Blackadder, season 2: Potato
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One said she lived in the South Foreland Light, and had singed her whiskers by doing so; another, that she was made fast to the great buoy outside the harbour, and could only be visited at half-tide; a third, that she was locked up in Maidstone jail for child-stealing; a fourth, that she was seen to mount a broom in the last high wind, and make direct for Calais.
Charles Dickens. David Copperfield (1850)
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