Lille
Speech parts
1. Lille - Noun
2. Lille - Proper noun
Meaning
an industrial city in northern France near the Belgian border; was the medieval capital of Flanders
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I could just go a few steps [from the house where he stayed in Paris in 1906- 1907] and I'd see the Louvre across the river. From the corner of the Rue de Bac and Lille (sic) you could see Sacré-Coeur. It hung like a great vision in the air above the city.
Every minute, every instant, from Brittany to Corsica and from Lille to Strasbourg, the French look around them, and ask themselves: Where am I?
After the signing of the Armistice in 1918 the city of Manchester sent a tree, and £500 to buy chocolate and cakes, for the children of the much-bombarded town of Lille in northern France.
Billed as a “lingerie exposition and marketplace,” this wildly popular show features original designs from great local fashion houses including Lille Boutique, Chubby Cartwheels, Thunderpants, and more.
As a result, occupied Lille became a place both for the hospitalization and treatment of wounded soldiers as well as a place for soldiers' relaxation and entertainment.
Arsenal themselves are on the hunt for a new centre-back and are tracking Lille starlet Gabriel Magalhaes.