Tours

[ toor; French toor ]

/ tʊər; French tur /

noun

a city in and the capital of Indre-et-Loire, in W France, on the Loire River: Charles Martel defeated the Saracens near here a.d. 732.

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Words nearby Tours

tourney, tourniquet, tournois, tour of duty, tour operator, Tours, tourtière, touse, tousle, tousled, tous-les-mois

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The subsequent media attention led prison authorities to officially shut down the tours.
Cocaine, Politicians and Wives: Inside the World’s Most Bizarre Prison|Jason Batansky|October 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Emily Rushton, an escort in her 30s who tours both cities and smaller towns around Ontario, explains that region is a factor, too.
The Importance of Adult Classifieds|Hazlitt|September 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Today, tours take visitors up to the once-hidden floor of the still-bustling hotel.
The KGB Welcomes You to Estonia’s Hotel Viru. Please Mind the Hidden Bugs|Nina Strochlic|July 31, 2014|DAILY BEAST
They rode as far as Tours on the Loire until stopped by the French cavalry of Charles Martel.
Is This Hemingway’s Pamplona or a Lot of Bull?|Clive Irving|July 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Celebrities like Paul Newman and Sophia Loren even dropped by for tours.
Israel’s Tiniest Breakaway State|Nina Strochlic|June 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Despite their continuous quarrels with the Archbishop of Tours, the good priests are rare, the bad ones numerous.
The Carlovingian Coins|Eugne Sue
It was Radegunds wish that they should be fetched from Tours to her nunnery by a procession headed by the bishop of Poitiers.
Woman under Monasticism|Lina Eckenstein
Even then our tours would be circuitous, and sometimes retrograde, and we should turn and double like hares before the hounds.
Haunted London|Walter Thornbury
He made several Alpine tours, and once (in 1860) he accompanied me in an ascent of the Jungfrau with a couple of guides.
The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I.|Sir Leslie Stephen
I will take my people, and go to my aunt by Tours and the east road.
Count Hannibal|Stanley J. Weyman

British Dictionary definitions for Tours

Tours

/ (French tur) /

noun

a town in W central France, on the River Loire: nearby is the scene of the defeat of the Arabs in 732, which ended the advance of Islam in W Europe. Pop: 132 820 (1999)

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