Tourcoing

American

[toor-kwan] / turˈkwɛ̃ /

noun

a city in N France, near the Belgian border.

Tourcoing British

/ turkwɛ̃ /

noun

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

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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

He was re-elected mayor of his political fiefdom of Tourcoing in northern France this year.

From Reuters • Jul. 6, 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

Now, in the case of Tourcoing, there was none of this, for the French at Tourcoing were surprised.

From Tourcoing by Belloc, Hilaire

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