English Explanatory Dictionary

banlieue

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The outskirts of a city, especially in France, inhabited chiefly by poor people living in tenement-style housing.

Word forms

banlieue banlieues

Etymology

Borrowed from French banlieue.

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