Search Result:dunkerque
Overview of noun dunkerque
The noun dunkerque has 2 senses
- Dunkirk, Dunkerque -- (a seaport in northern France on the North Sea; scene of the evacuation of British forces in 1940 during World War II)
- Dunkirk, Dunkerque -- (an amphibious evacuation in World War II (1940) when 330,000 Allied troops had to be evacuated from the beaches in northern France in a desperate retreat under enemy fire)