banlieue

/ bɑ̃ljø /

noun

1. a suburb of a city

Example Sentences

A local government policy of building high-quality football facilities in every Paris banlieue, partly to keep kids off the streets and out of trouble, has been fundamental to making the sport cheap and accessible to all.

From BBC

Konate even returned to his old Paris banlieue to unveil his Liverpool shirt, external-link while a delirious crowd lit red flares and chanted his name.

From BBC

Generations later, the suburbs are populated mainly by French-born citizens of African and Arab heritage, and the word banlieue has become synonymous with high crime rates and a largely Muslim underclass widely seen as outsiders.

From Los Angeles Times

Rose Ameziane, who is of Algerian heritage and also grew up in a banlieue, said that when police killed Merzouk last month, the anger made perfect sense.

From Los Angeles Times

“We’ve been excluded from society,” said Sofiane El Bekri, 27, a Paris-based, French-born creative director of Tunisian and Algerian descent who grew up in a banlieue of Lille in northern France.

From Los Angeles Times