banlieue
Britishnoun
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“Everybody in the banlieue knows him, he’s a legend,” said Arthur Spada, 22, who has been following Abdoulaye N. on social media for years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025
The relationship between banlieue residents and police has been fraught for decades.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2023
If the 2005 riots were a wake-up call about the plight of young people in the French banlieue, last week’s destruction was like realizing you accidentally hit snooze one too many times.
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2023
Just before the riots he had also responded to a rowdy reception committee in one banlieue by calling them racaille - riffraff.
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2023
All the communes of the Department of the Seine, considered as the banlieue of Paris, have the right of levying an entrance duty upon brandies, spirits, and liquors.
From Paris From the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 2 by William Walton
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