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Tourcoing

American  
[toor-kwan] / turˈkwɛ̃ /

noun

  1. a city in N France, near the Belgian border.


Tourcoing British  
/ turkwɛ̃ /

noun

  1. a town in NE France: textile manufacturing. Pop: 93 540 (1999)

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An employee at "Vestiaire Collective" an online marketplace to buy and sell pre-owned designer clothing and accessories, checks clothing in Tourcoing, France, December 4, 2017.

From Reuters • Jul. 27, 2022

Mr. Darmanin was then a functionary at party headquarters in the legal department, and a municipal councilor in the northern city of Tourcoing.

From New York Times • Jul. 8, 2020

I’ve known him since he was a kid, when I helped out with the youth teams at Union Sport Tourcoing before he went off to Lille.

From The Guardian • Nov. 17, 2015

From his home in Tourcoing, a city of approximately 93,000 in Northern France, Laurent Magniez runs MapYourTag, a Software-as-a-Service asset tracking startup.

From Forbes • Jul. 21, 2014

It is on this account that the battle is called the Battle of Tourcoing, for Tourcoing was the most advanced point to which the centre of the Allies had reached.

From The French Revolution by Belloc, Hilaire