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Oise is a department in the north of France. It is named after the river Oise.

Oise (river)

The Oise is a river of Belgium and France, flowing for from its source in the Belgian province of Hainaut, south of Chimay. It crosses the border with France after about . It flows into the Seine at Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, a north-western suburb of Paris. Its main tributary is the Aisne. It gave its name to the French departments of Oise and Val-d'Oise.

Oise (disambiguation)

Oise is a department in the north of France.

Oise may also refer to:

  • Oise (river), a river flowing through Belgium and France
  • Canal latéral à l'Oise, a canal parallel to the Oise (river)
  • Val-d'Oise, a department of France located in the Île-de-France region

OISE, as a four-letter acronym, may refer to:

  • Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, an educational institute in Canada

Usage examples of "oise".

Allemant, Vaudesson, Malmaison, and Chavignon, with 8000 prisoners, were taken on 23 October, and by the 27th the French had captured Pinon, Pargny, and Filain, and pressed through the Pinon forest to the banks of the Ailette and the Oise and Aisne canal.

Beginning on the 17th with an attack on a ten-mile front between Tracy-le-Val and Vingre he had steadily pushed on until by the 23rd his left flank held the Oise as far as its junction with the Ailette and his front faced the latter canalized river as far as Guny.

Their hilltop controlled passage through the valley of the Ailette to the greater valley of the Oise.

But Varennes, a town on the Oise, was so small as to have no post-house, and by some mismanagement the royal party had not been informed at which end of the town they were to find the relay.

The bridge over the Oise at Precy is blown up and all cars have to come sixteen miles round to Chantilly by another bridge.

Fanny, who had left Julien at his new billets in Chantilly, drove on alone to the little village on the Oise which was to be her home.

Now, on the upper Oise, where nothing sailed as a general thing but fish, a pair of canoeists could not be thus vulgarly explained away.

Suppose you were to imitate the exciseman, mesdames, and even if the souls in purgatory were not greatly bettered, some souls in Creil upon the Oise would find themselves none the worse either here or hereafter.

After talking to Gen­eral Ebener, Gallieni went on to see Maunoury at Creil on the Oise, thirty miles north of Paris.

Within a month Charles’s physical recovery had progressed well enough for Harsigny to take him to the castle of Creil high above the river Oise, where he could enjoy “the best air in the region of Paris.