Crossword clues for cannes
cannes
- French film festival city
- Nice neighbor
- Film festival host
- Riviera town
- Riviera film festival site
- Neighbor of Nice
- It's near Nice
- French film festival site
- French film festival locale
- Film-festival site
- Film-festival city
- Film festival resort on the French Riviera
- Festival de ___
- Festival city
- City near Nice
- City in Fitzgerald's "Tender Is the Night"
- Annual French film festival site
- Bancroft, Meara and 98 others
- Where the Palme d'Or is awarded
- Film festival site
- Where some art films premiere
- Cote d'Azur town
- A port and resort city on the French Riviera
- Site of an annual film festival
- Film-festival locale
- Site of film festivals
- Riviera resort
- City on the Riviera
- French resort with a film festival
- Birches planted round Northern resort
- Riviera city
- French Riviera resort
- Film festival city
- French Riviera city
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
city on the French Riviera, perhaps from a pre-Indo-European word *kan, meaning "height." The film festival dates from 1946.
Wikipedia
Cannes (, , in Occitan Canas) is a city located on the French Riviera. It is a commune of France located in the Alpes-Maritimes department, and host city of the annual Cannes Film Festival, Midem, and Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. The city is known for its association with the rich and famous, its luxury hotels and restaurants, and for several conferences. On 3 November 2011 it also played host to the G20 organisation of industrialised nations.
Usage examples of "cannes".
Edmond, simple Cordula, fantastically intricate Lucette, and, by further mechanical association, a depraved little girl called Lisette, in Cannes, with breasts like lovely abscesses, whose frail favors were handled by a smelly big brother in an old bathing machine.
A professional playing against the bank in Cannes or Deauville, for instance, must have enough millions to continue until his luck is in.
Film Critics Top Pick for Independents, New Director Pellam Captures Cannes, Sundance.
Would there be myths, like those of Prometheus, Thoth, or Cannes, about divine beings who had given the gift of language to the apes?
Lord Baltimore, who lives in Norfolk, London, Cannes, and anywhere else that the whim takes him.
In the old port of Antibes beyond the causeway of Cannes, his yacht, Bel Ami, which he cherished as a brother, lay at anchor and awaited him.
And I thought that from Cannes, where one poses, to Monaco, where one gambles, people come to this spot of the earth for hardly any other purpose than to get embroiled or to throw away money on chance games, displaying under this delicious sky and in this garden of roses and oranges all base vanities and foolish pretensions and vile lusts, showing up the human mind such as it is, servile, ignorant, arrogant and full of cupidity.
When we reached Cannes, as he wished to speak to me he signed to me to get out, and as soon as I did so, he took me by the arm.
And all along the great gulf, all along the tall mountains that encircle Cannes, the white villa residences seem to be sleeping in the sunlight.
She came to Cannes, made the acquaintance of the sun, loved the sea, and breathed the perfume of orange blossoms.
On a quick decision, they departed for Cannes, and remained there till early in the following April.
Coming to Cannes with Lou and Cindi was an exciting diversion, especially as she'd never been out of America and it was an all-expenses-paid trip.
She flashed them a smile and a few poses while wondering if any of them were the same photographers who'd captured her and Cindi on their first trip to the Cannes Film Festival.
It's curious you should be speakin' in French, for the story I have for yez starts out in Cannes, the cinema festival place-oh, there's champion drinkin' there, almost as much as Oktoberfest, even a cluricaune can't make a dent in the liquor supply.
Ma era doloroso rievocare Cannes e Beverly Hills e cercare di riannodare i fili, ma una volta iniziato non riuscii piĆ¹ a fermarmi.