Crossword clues for chartres
chartres
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
cathedral city in central France, said to be named for the Carnutes, Gaulish people who had a sacred place there, whose name is said to be from a root meaning "rock, stone," but there is a famous "Druid Stone" at the church.
Wikipedia
Chartres is a commune and capital of the Eure-et-Loir department in France. It is located southwest of Paris. This city is well known for its cathedral.
Chartres is a city in Eure-et-Loir, France. "Chartres" may have other meanings.
Usage examples of "chartres".
London it was dark, and there were the first hints of fire on the horizon, the crunch of bombs as the Ju88S pathfinders operating out of Chartres and Rennes in France laid the flares that would lead in the heavy bombers following.
The van went slowly back and forth on Burgundy, Dauphine, Bourbon, Royal, Chartres, all of the more famous streets.
Normandy and Anjou were badly defended, and their nobles were already half in revolt, while the forces of France, Flanders, Boulogne, Chartres, Champagne, Poitou, and Britanny were allied against Henry.
It begins by recounting the follies of the court, passes on to the discussion of politics and philosophy, deals with the ethical systems of the ancients, and hints at a new system of his own, and is everywhere enriched by wide reading and learning acquired at the schools of Chartres and Paris London could boast of the historian Ralph of Diceto, always ready with a quotation from the classics amid the court news and politics of his day.
The oldest surviving labyrinth formed a stepping-stone path laid into the floor of the nave of Chartres Cathedral.
The chapel had been designed as a miniature of Chartres, and boasted some features of that enormous cathedral, including a rose window and, now, a labyrinth.
He clicked on a slide of the Chartres labyrinth, and offered the same historical and architectural background I'd heard on the audiotape.