Place Pigalle
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Our paths crossed for the last time in October 2022 at Place Pigalle at Pike Place Market.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 9, 2023
But watch as Melville’s hand-held camera trails Bob in his trench coat and fedora, or follows a garbage truck around the Place Pigalle like a ball in a roulette wheel.
From New York Times ● Nov. 17, 2020
Does Montmartre begin at the bottom of its steep rise, or in the Place Pigalle?
From The Guardian ● Apr. 16, 2010
The empire was briery threatened last spring when a Corsican hood named Michel Defendin loudly announced his intention of "conquering the Place Pigalle."
From Time Magazine Archive
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It is a by-product of the underworld and is no more characteristic of Vienna than the gilded cafés chantants which cluster round the Place Pigalle on Montmartre are characteristic of Paris.
From Europe After 8:15 by Benton, Thomas H.
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