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Douai or Dou·ay [doo-ey; French dwe] Examples noun
- a city in N France, SE of Calais.
Examples from the Web for douai Historical Examples of douai
They also wrecked the railway stations at Douai, Don, and Courtrai.
The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of VIII)
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For you’d lose my help, and she’d not believe you—though every priest in Douai backed your word!
Stanley John Weyman
He says further that he comes from my own seminary of Douai.
Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
He pursued his investigations as far as Roubaix, then swept southward to Douai.
Edgar Wallace
It was the work of English scholars connected with the University of Douai.
Cleland Boyd McAfee
British Dictionary definitions for douai Douai noun
- an industrial city in N France: the political and religious centre of exiled English Roman Catholics in the 16th and 17th centuries. Pop: 42 796 (1999)
Word Origin and History for douai Douai
or Douay, name of town in northern France, used elliptically in reference to the English translation of the Bible begun there late 16c., sanctioned by Roman Catholic Church. [Also called Rheims-Douai translation because it was published in Rheims in 1582]. It uses more Latinate words than the KJV.