considerable sea-port town of France, in the department of Calvados, with a good harbour, and trade in bone-lace, and with 9600 inhabitants. It is situated on the river Seine, in E. Long. o. 19. N. Lat. 25. 49.

Honi soit qui mal y pense, q. d. "Evil to him that thinks evil;" the motto of the most noble order of the knights of the Garter. See Garter.