Banlieue
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 The outskirts of a city, especially in France, inhabited chiefly by poor people living in tenement-style housing.
"[…] her novel illuminates the general situation facing all children of postcolonial immigrants across the West, from the banlieue of France to the Islamic neighborhoods of New York to the Hispanic ghettos of Los Angeles."
Example
More examples"[…] her novel illuminates the general situation facing all children of postcolonial immigrants across the West, from the banlieue of France to the Islamic neighborhoods of New York to the Hispanic ghettos of Los Angeles."
Etymology
Borrowed from French banlieue.
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