Word info

Falaise

Proper noun

Meaning

A commune in Calvados department, Normandy, France.

A commune in Ardennes department, Grand Est, France.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

About 10,000 Germans had killed in the Battle of the Falaise Gap, which led to a stunned Eisenhower who viewed the battlefield on 24 August to comment with horror that it was impossible to walk without stepping on corpses. Source: Internet

Arthur had initially been imprisoned at Falaise and was then moved to Rouen. Source: Internet

The 370th later operated from Cardonville France, flying ground attack missions against gun emplacements, troops, supply dumps and tanks near Saint-Lô in July and in the Falaise – Argentan area in August 1944. Source: Internet

John made no efforts to reinvigorate the Treaty of Falaise, though, and both William and Alexander in turn remained independent kings, supported by, but not owing fealty to, John. Source: Internet

John's father, Henry II, had forced William the Lion to swear fealty to him at the Treaty of Falaise in 1174. Source: Internet

And guided tours of Falaise, Harry Guggenheim’s French-Norman-style château, run from May 19 through Nov. 20. Source: Internet

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