Trois-Rivières

American  

[trwah-ree-vyer] / trwɑ riˈvyɛr /

noun

1. French name of Three Rivers.

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Trois-Rivières British  

/ trwɑ rivjɛr /

noun

1. English name: Three Rivers.  a port in E Canada, in Quebec on the St Lawrence River: one of the world's largest centres of newsprint production. Pop: 46 264 (2001)

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Example Sentences

The general manager of the ECHL’s Trois-Rivières Lions publicly mused recently that he was interested in signing Poulin to play.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 2, 2022

A pair of islands in the intersecting St.-Maurice River creates three channels where they meet the larger waterway, giving Trois-Rivières or Three Rivers, the second oldest Francophone city in North America, its name.

From New York Times • Jan. 13, 2020

There is a 17th-century coffee plantation, Habitation La Grivelière in Vieux-Habitants, a designated historic monument about 20 miles from Trois-Rivières.

From New York Times • Jan. 17, 2017

That clip above is of Donald Brashear going nuts in Trois-Rivières, Quebec, last Friday night.

From New York Times • Mar. 1, 2011

An' fine cigar cos' five cent each, an' mak' on Trois-Rivières!

From Humour of the North by Burpee, Lawrence J. (Lawrence Johnstone)