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Definition: Calvados |
CalvadosNoun1. Dry apple brandy made in Normandy. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Food & Agriculture | Spirit obtained from cider. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
This article is about the French départment. See also: Calvados, a French apple brandy. The French département of Calvados is in the région of Basse-Normandie. It is bounded on the north by the Baie de Seine, on the east by the River Seine, on the south by the département of Orne, and on the west by the département of Manche. The beaches on Baie de Seine were the scene of the D-Day landings on June 6, 1944
The préfecture (administrative capital) is Caen.
Sous-préfectures: Bayeux (noted for the Bayeux Tapestry), Lisieux and Vire.
Other towns include: Deauville.
Most of Calvados is agricultural. Products include butter, cheese, cider, and the apple-based spirit which shares its name (see Calvados (spirit)).
Juno Beach Centre at Courseulles-Sur-Mer, Calvados commemorates the D-Day landing of the Canadian liberation forces at Juno Beach during the Battle of Normandy in World War II.
See also: List of the communes of the Calvados département
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Calvados is an apple brandy from the French region of Lower Normandy.Like most French wines, Calvados is governed by appellation contrôlée regulations. The "Appellation Calvados contrôlée" area includes all of the Calvados, Manche, and Orne départements, plus parts of Eure, Mayenne, Sarthe, and Eure-et-Loire. The more restrictive "Appellation Calvados Pays d'Auge contrôlée" area is limited to the east end of Calvados département, plus a few adjoining districts.
Calvados should be aged in oak for several years before bottling - look for the phrases "vieilli en chêne" and "vieilli en fûts de chêne".
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Crosswords: Calvados |
| Non-English Usage: "Calvados" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (Calvados). |
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| "Calvados" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 72.00% of the time. "Calvados" is used about 25 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 72% | 18 | 82,615 |
| Noun (singular) | 28% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Total | 100.00% | 25 | N/A |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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calvados | 91 |
calvados tourisme | 7 |
camping calvados | 5 |
calvados france holiday in | 4 |
immobilier calvados | 3 |
calvados france sales | 3 |
calvados onduleur | 3 |
calvados location | 3 |
calvados restaurant | 3 |
calvados normandie | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "Calvados"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | calvados. (various references) | |
Dutch | calvados. (various references) | |
French | calvados. (various references) | |
German | Calvados. (various references) | |
Greek | calvados. (various references) | |
Italian | calvados. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | カルデラ湖 (caldera lake, card, cult). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | カルバドス . (various references) | |
Korean | 칼"도스. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | alvadoscay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | calvados. (various references) | |
Russian | яблочная водка (apple brandy, apple-brandy, applejack), кальвадос. (various references) | |
Spanish | calvados. (various references) | |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Calvados": calvadoses. (additional references) | |
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"Calvados" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: calvedos, Calzado, Carvaho, clavatum, clavatus, Kalavada. (additional references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-l-o-s-v" | |
-1 letter: scalado. | |
-2 letters: coalas, vocals. | |
-3 letters: acold, calos, clads, clods, coala, coals, codas, colas, colds, lavas, loads, ovals, salad, salvo, scald, scold, vasal, vocal. | |
-4 letters: aals, ados, alas, also, avos, cads, calo, casa, clad, clod, coal, coda, cods, cola, cold, cols, dals, docs, dols, lacs, lads, lava, lavs, load, loca, ocas, olds, oval, scad, soda, sola, sold, vacs, vasa. | |
-5 letters: aal, aas, ado, ads, ala, als, ava, avo, cad, cod, col, cos, dal, doc, dol, dos, lac, lad, las, lav, oca, ods, old, ova, sac, sad, sal, sod, sol, vac, vas. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-d-l-o-s-v" | |
+2 letters: calvadoses. | |
+4 letters: cadaverously. | |
+5 letters: vacationlands. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 61 6C 76 61 64 6F 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- .-.. ...- .- -.. --- ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100001 01101100 01110110 01100001 01100100 01101111 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a l v a d o s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 006C 0076 0061 0064 006F 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3767788867708185 |
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