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Tourcoing

American  
[toor-kwan] / turˈkwɛ̃ /

noun

  1. a city in N France, near the Belgian border.


Tourcoing British  
/ turkwɛ̃ /

noun

  1. a town in NE France: textile manufacturing. Pop: 93 540 (1999)

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"This Council can become the face of a strong, protective Europe that is comfortable with controlling its borders and therefore its destiny," he said in the northern French town of Tourcoing.

From Reuters Feb. 2, 2022

Mr. Darmanin was then a functionary at party headquarters in the legal department, and a municipal councilor in the northern city of Tourcoing.

From New York Times Jul. 8, 2020

I’ve known him since he was a kid, when I helped out with the youth teams at Union Sport Tourcoing before he went off to Lille.

From The Guardian Nov. 17, 2015

From his home in Tourcoing, a city of approximately 93,000 in Northern France, Laurent Magniez runs MapYourTag, a Software-as-a-Service asset tracking startup.

From Forbes Jul. 21, 2014

And the hour when all the six bodies of the allies were to join hands at “R” near Tourcoing was the noon of that day.

From Tourcoing by Belloc, Hilaire

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