banlieue

noun

a suburb of a city

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Examples from the Web for banlieue

Contemporary Examples of banlieue

The banlieue setting is rough and rife with violence and drug trafficking.
‘Girlhood’: Coming of Age in France’s Projects
Molly Hannon
November 25, 2014
She must leave the banlieue, just as she insists to the school counselor, that she must go to high school.
‘Girlhood’: Coming of Age in France’s Projects
Molly Hannon
November 25, 2014
Hot on the heels of the November 2005 banlieue riots, tensions remained high.
A Horror Story of True-Life Anti-Semitism in France
Tracy McNicoll
April 28, 2014

Historical Examples of banlieue

Inexhaustible as is the banlieue of Paris you are always glad to get back.
Paris Vistas
Helen Davenport Gibbons
Gavroche looked and saw that this came from the men of the banlieue.
Les Misrables
Victor Hugo
La gare de Londres no more great than a station of banlieue, near to Paris.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 109, August 10, 1895
Various
Ninety-one bombs were dropped that night within the old fortifications; more than two hundred were showered on the banlieue.
The Book of Susan
Lee Wilson Dodd
Next day the outraged Chapter excommunicated the town and banlieue.
The Story of Chartres
Cecil Headlam

Word Origin and History for banlieue

French, "suburbs, precincts," from Vulgar Latin *banleuca, from ban (see ban (n.1)) + leuca "a league (of distance)," in Medieval Latin, "indefinite extent of territory" (see league (n.2)). So, "the extent of a ban; the territory within which a ban is of force," hence, "territory subject to one jurisdiction."