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Lille

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Lille  (ll)
A city of northern France north-northeast of Paris near the Belgian border. Founded c. 1030, it was the medieval capital of Flanders and is now a commercial, cultural, and manufacturing center. Population: 225,000.
Lille (French) [lil]
n
(Placename) an industrial city in N France: the medieval capital of Flanders; forms with Roubaix and Tourcoing one of the largest conurbations in France. Pop.: 182 228 (1999)
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Noun1.LilleLille - an industrial city in northern France near the Belgian border; was the medieval capital of Flanders
France, French Republic - a republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe
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Lille [liːl] N → Lila f


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[5] This picture, formerly in the possession of a wealthy manufacturer at Lille, who fled from that city on the approach of the Germans, is now in the National Gallery at Stockholm.
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