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lille
/lil/
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What does lille mean?
proper noun
- The capital of Nord department and the Hauts-de-France region, France.
- A town and municipality of the province of Antwerp, Belgium.
- 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.
But others, like Debierre in Lille, Sernoff in Moscow, Taine, Drill, Marchand have also had occasion to controvert the Italian positivists.
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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.
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.
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.