Yvelines

American  

[eev-leen] / ivˈlin /

noun

1. a department in N France. 877 sq. mi. (2,271 sq. km). Versailles.

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Yvelines British  

/ ivlin /

noun

1. a department of N France, in Île de France region. Capital: Versailles. Pop: 1 370 443 (2003 est). Area: 2271 sq km (886 sq miles)

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Example Sentences

Andre, an 86-year-old neighbour of the house that was briefly Khomeini's headquarters, recalled the sudden storm that hit sleepy Neauphle-le-Chateau in the Yvelines department.

From Barron's

"One evening on the television, they announced that an ayatollah had set up home in a comfortable district in the Yvelines," said the retired engineer, who declined to give his family name but has lived in the village since 1974.

From Barron's

"It costs us less to give these potatoes to Parisians than to store them ourselves," Denis Lavenant, a farmer from the Yvelines region, told AFP.

From Barron's

A police union source said a squad from the elite CRS8 anti-riot unit was being deployed to Elancourt, the town in the Yvelines department west of the capital where Wednesday's crash occurred.

From Reuters

Wednesday's crash, which occurred in Elancourt in the Yvelines department west of the capital, happened just over two months after police shot and killed a 17-year-old of North African descent at a traffic stop in the Paris suburb of Nanterre.

From Reuters