Lille
a city in and the capital of Nord, in N France.
- Formerly Lisle.
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How to use Lille in a sentence
The sexual bildungsroman, for the uninitiated, centers on Adèle (Adèle Exarchopoulos), a 15-year-old high school student in Lille.
‘Blue is the Warmest Color’: See What the Sex Scene Looks Like In the Graphic Novel | Marlow Stern | October 28, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTBut he still faces charges of “aggravated pimping” in Lille, north of Paris.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn Talks Comeback With Parisian Magazine Le Point | Tracy McNicoll | October 10, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTWhat about forthcoming revelations from the investigation at the Carlton in Lille?
DSK's Wife Says She Will Head French Version of the Huffington Post | Eric Pape | December 22, 2011 | THE DAILY BEASTIt is dubbed the Affaire du Carlton, after a four-star hotel at the heart of the scandal in Lille, northeast of Paris.
Three picked divisions were hurled against the hills of Lille and Ravetsberg, to the east of Bailleul, which fell.
Ypres and the Battles of Ypres | Unknown
In the fields: numerous small forts of reinforced concrete, which commanded all the roads into Lille.
Ypres and the Battles of Ypres | UnknownA few yards further on, take the level-crossing over the Ypres-Lille Railway.
Ypres and the Battles of Ypres | UnknownYou escape from Lille, just on the frontier, what on earth were you doing down at Blois, a hundred miles south of Paris?
The Cornet of Horse | G. A. HentyRupert learned that after his escape from Lille the marquis was for three weeks confined to his bed.
The Cornet of Horse | G. A. Henty
British Dictionary definitions for Lille
/ (French lil) /
an industrial city in N France: the medieval capital of Flanders; forms with Roubaix and Tourcoing one of the largest conurbations in France. Pop: 184 657 (1999)
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