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Tours

[ toor; French toor ]

noun

  1. 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.


Tours

/ tur /

noun

  1. 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)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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The best time of the year to visit and hotel listings are also prominent on the page, along with Tours and activities ads.

Private tours are also available before the museum opens (for $630) or during official hours (for $340).

Now the city fills with travelers on package tours who stay at ultra-modern hotels and spend their money at glittering malls.

Cotton, who is challenging Democratic incumbent Mark Pryor, is an Army vet who completed combat tours in Afghanistan and Iraq.

She hated sharing Georgie with his admirers, particularly on lecture tours in in North America.

The subsequent media attention led prison authorities to officially shut down the tours.

We managed to reach the majority of such points by going and returning over different highways on our longer tours.

Bourbonne saw a great deal more than did the Listomeres of Tours.

In later years she paid successful visits to America, but in England played chiefly on provincial tours.

From his window he looked down upon the Loire and the meadows of the beautiful valley stretching from Amboise to Tours.

Young persons would find Tours a delightful residence, as there is a never-ceasing course of balls and parties.

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