banlieue

/ French (bɑ̃ljø) /

a suburb of a city

Words nearby banlieue

The banlieue setting is rough and rife with violence and drug trafficking.

‘Girlhood’: Coming of Age in France’s Projects |Molly Hannon |November 25, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
She must leave the banlieue, just as she insists to the school counselor, that she must go to high school.

‘Girlhood’: Coming of Age in France’s Projects |Molly Hannon |November 25, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Hot on the heels of the November 2005 banlieue riots, tensions remained high.

A Horror Story of True-Life Anti-Semitism in France |Tracy McNicoll |April 28, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Paris, centre, banlieue, circumference; this constitutes all the earth to those children.

Les Misrables |Victor Hugo

Ninety-one bombs were dropped that night within the old fortifications; more than two hundred were showered on the banlieue.

The Book of Susan |Lee Wilson Dodd
This talent of divining, possessed in a high degree by the Parisians, has never passed the banlieue.

Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle |Arvede Barine
Next day the outraged Chapter excommunicated the town and banlieue.

The Story of Chartres |Cecil Headlam
Gavroche looked and saw that this came from the men of the banlieue.

Les Misrables |Victor Hugo