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Pontoise

American  
[pawn-twaz] / pɔ̃ˈtwaz /

noun

  1. a city in and the capital of Val-d'Oise, in N France, on the Oise River, NW of Paris.


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All three defendants are set to appear at a court in Pontoise, near Paris on Wednesday following a trial in March.

From BBC • Jun. 7, 2025

Then, earlier this month, a seven-year-old girl called Kenya was playing with a friend on a basketball court in Pontoise, northwest of Paris, when they were knocked down by an 18-year-old biker.

From BBC • Aug. 18, 2022

Judge Dominique Andréassier of the court in Pontoise, northwest of Paris, ordered the American carrier to pay a fine of $265,000.

From New York Times • Dec. 6, 2010

Near Pontoise, France, ghouls tunneled into the tomb of munitioneer Sir Basil Zaharos, pried open the mahogany casket of his wife, supposedly in search of jewels falsely reported to have been buried with her corpse.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was a mean trick that you played on me, to take me to a house where I might meet a man who knew me at Pontoise!

From San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams by Kock, Charles Paul de