Left Bank

American  

noun

1. a part of Paris, France, on the S bank of the Seine: frequented by artists, writers, and students.

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Left Bank British  

noun

1. a district of Paris, on the S bank of the River Seine; frequented by artists, students, etc

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Left Bank Cultural  

1. Area in Paris on the left (south) bank of the Seine River.

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The Left Bank is a center of artistic and student life.

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Example Sentences

Ali Akbar has been pounding the pavement of Paris's Left Bank for more than 50 years, papers under the arm and on his lips the latest headline.

From BBC

Thus expectations were high for a springtime face-off — with contemporary stagings of “Macbeth” and “Hamlet” — between the Comédie-Française, France’s top permanent company, and the Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe, the Left Bank’s most venerable theater.

From New York Times

They walked out very slowly allowing the audience a close look at the elaborate garments, their spiky gold heels crunching on a gravel runway in a school yard on the Left Bank in Paris.

From Reuters

Models marched across a cobblestone catwalk in a courtyard of the Hotel de la Monnaie on the Left Bank in Paris wearing white, cotton sneakers or simple ballerina slippers that toned down dressier looks.

From Reuters

Rescue workers combed through debris in central Paris on Thursday, a day after a powerful explosion ripped through a building on the Left Bank and injured about 50 people, several of them critically.

From New York Times