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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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On Sunday, he gathered about 100 lawmakers and a dozen cabinet colleagues in his constituency of Tourcoing, a working class town in France's northern rust belt.

From Reuters Aug. 27, 2023

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

Tourcoing, then, must be regarded as an unexpected, not wholly conclusive, but none the less fundamental phase in the development of political forces which led to the establishment of the modern world.

From Tourcoing by Hilaire Belloc

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