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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.Lille - an industrial city in northern France near the Belgian borderLille - 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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Dumolyn, De Raad van Vlaanderen en de Rekenkamer van Rijsel.
Nobles, patricians and officers: the making of a regional political ... by Dumolyn, Jan / Journal of Social History
In a smoke-filled pub, Estiminet T Rijsel on the Rue de Gant in Lille, I ate a great regional delicacy - rabbit cooked in prunes and washed down with a jug of local, dry cider.
LIVING: Travel - Watch the waistline! WE ARE SAILING by Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England)
 
 
 
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