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Côte d'Azur

American  
[koht da-zyr] / koʊt daˈzür /

noun

  1. French name of the Riviera.


Côte d'Azur British  
/ kot dazyr /

noun

  1. the Mediterranean coast of France, including the French Riviera: forms an administrative region with Provence

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Principal photography commenced later that year in Cannes, Nice and the Côte d’Azur, and re-created the festival atmosphere.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026

The 60-million-year date immediately struck Alessandro Morbidelli, a planetary scientist at Côte d’Azur University.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 16, 2024

This seaside respite on the Côte d’Azur was once a 17th-century soap factory yet looks like a castle thanks to a Scottish lord who, in the early 1900s, added turrets and crenelated ramparts.

From New York Times • Mar. 27, 2024

"It's a planet that shouldn't exist," study co-author Vivien Parmentier, a researcher at the Observatory of Côte d'Azur in Nice, France, said in the same statement.

From Salon • Jul. 11, 2023

They would find a world of things to say of the rugged fairyland of Auvergne or the swooning loveliness of the Côte d'Azur.

From The Mountebank by Locke, William John