Côte d'Azur

[ koht da-zyr ]

noun

1. French name of the Riviera.

Côte d'Azur

/ kot dazyr /

noun

1. the Mediterranean coast of France, including the French Riviera: forms an administrative region with Provence

Example Sentences

On 15 August, for example, he was at Boulouris, on the Côte d’Azur in France, where he gave a detailed 12-minute address at the commemoration of the 1944 Allied landings to liberate southern France from the Nazis - an operation in which many troops from the French African territories took part.

From BBC

Moving from the Parisian suburbs to the wealthy, sunny Cote d'Azur at such a young age could have made others go inside themselves.

From BBC

The Côte d’Azur festival, which kicked off Tuesday, is a 10-day ballet of spectacle and film where even the photographers wear tuxedos, standing ovations are timed with stopwatches and movies tend to be referred to by the names of their directors — “the Almodóvar,” “the Malick,” “the Coppola.”

From Seattle Times

Now, festival organizers were calling because her movie, about a group of 16-year-old girls who spend a debauched booze and sex-soaked summer vacation on the Greek island of Crete, had won a prize that would be announced at that evening’s closing ceremony back on the Côte d’Azur.

From New York Times

Chan, Vitalant Chair in Vascular Medicine and Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology at the University of Pittsburgh, and his team collaborated with the team of Thomas Bertero at the Université Côte d'Azur in France.

From Science Daily