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lille

/lil/

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What does lille mean?

proper noun

  1. The capital of Nord department and the Hauts-de-France region, France.
  2. A town and municipality of the province of Antwerp, Belgium.
  3. A community in the town of Grand Isle, Maine, United States, across the river from Canada.

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IPA pronunciation

/lil/

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The chemical telegraph was tried between Paris and Lille before a committee of the Institute and the Legislative Assembly.
John MunroHeroes of the TelegraphProject Gutenberg ebook #979
But others, like Debierre in Lille, Sernoff in Moscow, Taine, Drill, Marchand have also had occasion to controvert the Italian positivists.
Hans GrossCriminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and StudentsTranslated by Horace Meyer KallenProject Gutenberg ebook #1320
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Two hours and a half after it had been let off it was found in a field about nine miles from Lille.
Fulgence MarionWonderful Balloon Ascents; Or, The Conquest of the Skies A History of Balloons and Balloon VoyagesProject Gutenberg ebook #899
Gabrielle Bompard was twenty-two years of age at the time of her arrest, the fourth child of a merchant of Lille, a strong, hardworking, respectable man.
H. B. (Henry Brodribb) IrvingA Book of Remarkable CriminalsProject Gutenberg ebook #446
Immediately after the conclusion of its trials, a specimen of the type was delivered intact at Lille for the Germans to copy, the innocent pilot responsible for the delivery doing some great disservice to his own cause.
Evelyn Charles Vivian; W. Lockwood (William Lockwood) MarshA History of AeronauticsProject Gutenberg ebook #874