Colombes

American

[kaw-lawnb] / kɔˈlɔ̃b /

noun

a city in N France, NW of Paris.

Colombes British

/ kɔlɔ̃b /

noun

an industrial and residential suburb of NW Paris. Pop: 76 757 (1999)

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“For French people who love sport, Colombes is a place full of emotion,” says sports historian Mickael Delepine.

From BBC • Jul. 19, 2024

Colombes also saw victory for the Uruguayan football team - setting up its triumph at the first World Cup on home turf in 1930.

From BBC • Jul. 19, 2024

One hundred years after hosting track and field plus other sports at the 1924 Paris Olympics, Colombes Stadium in the northwest suburbs will this time stage field hockey.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 26, 2023

But the outraged reaction of some 40,000 French fans at the Stade Colombes jeopardized the very principle of the better and more peaceful world through sports on which the modern Olympics were based.

From New York Times • Jun. 17, 2016

He went to the Deux Colombes and ordered the dinner.

From The Azure Rose A Novel by Kauffman, Reginald Wright

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