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Tournai

Or Tour·nay

[toor-ney, toor-ne]

noun

  1. a city in W Belgium, on the Scheldt River.



Tournai

/ turnɛ /

noun

  1. Flemish name: Doornika city in W Belgium, in Hainaut province on the River Scheldt: under several different European rulers until 1814. Pop: 67 341 (2004 est)

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As part of his public offensive, Versluys has given journalists tours of his warehouse on the outskirts of the provincial town of Tournai.

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Rudy Opsomer, the president of the Friends of the Tournai Cathedral, said the garments were usually kept in the church's chambers, far from the public eye.

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So, he said they were lucky to have the permission of Tournai's Bishop Guy Harpigny to hold the show.

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Paul-Olivier Delannois, the mayor of Tournai in southern Belgium, through which the river runs, complained in a letter to French President Emmanuel Macron.

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The plague in Tournai, then part of France, as depicted in "The Annales of Gilles de Muisit" from the mid-14th century.

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