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Deauville

[ doh-vil; French doh-veel ]

noun

  1. a coastal resort in NW France, S of Le Havre.


Deauville

/ ˈdəʊviːl; dovil /

noun

  1. a town and resort in NW France: casino Pop: 4364 (1999)
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Example Sentences

Air traffic control systems handling the flight were confused by a duplicate code - DVL - representing both Deauville in France and Devil's Lake in North Dakota, USA.

From BBC

In front of the general, during a ceremony this week at Deauville on the Normandy coast, were 48 American survivors of that day, the youngest of them 98, most of them 100 years old or more.

As some of the veterans arrived on Monday, descending from a hulking 767 onto the tarmac of the small Deauville airport — sometimes helped by multiple aides — many of those there to greet them grew teary in between their bursts of applause.

“I’m living on borrowed time now,” Bob Gibson, 100, enthusiastically said when arriving at the Deauville airport in Normandy.

Upon arriving at the Deauville airport, he said, “I want to see the beach again.”

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