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US
/ˈpæɹɪs, ˈpɛɹɪs/
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NOUN
- (Greek mythology) the prince of Troy who abducted Helen from her husband Menelaus and provoked the Trojan War
- sometimes placed in subfamily Trilliaceae
- a town in northeastern Texas
- the capital and largest city of France; and international center of culture and commerce
How To Use Paris In A Sentence
- Leaving London they went to Paris, where they passed a few days, but soon grew weary of the place; and Lord Chetwynde, feeling a kind of languor, which seemed to him like a premonition of disease, he decided to go to Germany. The Cryptogram A Novel
- He moved to Paris in 1767, and after a couple of years had become so popular that he received regular commissions to write two or three operas a year for various theatres.
- These include a nice Nigerian guy who sells the best roast chicken around (he did this in Paris as well), a couple of Egyptians and a Tunisian who make great chicken shawarma and a couple of Turkish guys who do the same with beef.
- As most Parisians escape the city in August there will just be me and Darren and a couple of million other tourists in town that weekend.
- Although there were additional conditions in the Heuer and Reisberg study the interesting comparison is between the arousal and neutral conditions.
- The three were taken into custody in connection with alleged plans to attack the US embassy in Paris.
- Shortly after my Ph.D. Alfred Kastler urged me to accept a teaching position at the University of Paris. Claude Cohen-Tannoudji - Autobiography
- This is the second Mercator chart showing Lindbergh's route as a series of 500 mile-long loxodromes approximating the great circle route from New York to Paris.
- From that moment, he anchors his existence in the hopeless need to share an affective contiguity with this random female acquaintance by changing the time of every clock and watch he encounters to Paris time.
- So while artists in 1860s Paris were discovering the beauty of Japanese "floating world" — or ukiyo-e — woodblock prints, many Japanese artists were heading to Yokohama, scouring European publications and creating their own genre of exotica: the Yokohama-e. How Japan Saw Us