Argenteuil

[ ar-zhahn-tœ-yuh ]

noun

1. a city in N France, on the Seine near Paris.

Argenteuil

/ arʒɑ̃tœj /

noun

1. a suburb of Paris, France, with a convent (656) that became famous when Héloïse was abbess (12th century). Pop: 93 961 (1999)

Example Sentences

In Argenteuil, an impoverished suburb of Paris, Claudine Pasquier, a retired school secretary carrying two grocery bags, rattled off Mr. Macron’s “little phrases” — like when he called train stations places “where one encounters people who are succeeding and people who are nothing” or his reference to the “crazy amounts of dough” spent on benefits for the poor.

From New York Times

From a distance, the rows and rows of abundant blooms are so vividly hued that they look color-corrected to within an inch of their lives; squint and “The Rose Maker” becomes a poppy field worth of Monet in Argenteuil.

From Washington Post

ARGENTEUIL, France — Fayçal Ziraoui loves a good challenge.

From New York Times

“I’ve never set limits on what I can learn,” Mr. Ziraoui, a 38-year-old French-Moroccan business consultant, said in an interview at his home in the Paris suburb of Argenteuil.

From New York Times

They said the teenagers, a boy and a girl, both aged 15, had met the 14-year-old girl, whom they knew, in Argenteuil, west of Paris.

From Reuters