Crossword clues for lille
lille
- Flanders city romance featuring two lecturers
- Industrial city of northern France
- University city in French Flanders
- City of France
- French textiles city
- City of northern France, close to Belgium
- De Gaulle's birth city
- City north of Paris
- City liberated in September 1944
- Major French city
- French city with three L's
- French city where de Gaulle was born
- French city on the Deûle River
- French city near Dunkirk
- French city near Calais
- French city near Belgium
- French city near Belgian border
- French city known for textiles
- Former French textile city
- City where Pasteur was a college dean
- City where de Gaulle was born
- City near Calais
- City in which de Gaulle was born
- City in French Flanders
- Charles de Gaulles birthplace
- Capital of France's Nord department
- Liberated city of September 1944
- French textile city
- Charles de Gaulle's birthplace
- City ESE of Calais
- De Gaulle's birthplace
- City in northern France
- Northern French city
- Medieval capital of Flanders
- City NNE of Paris
- 40-Down's birthplace
- Birthplace of Charles De Gaulle
- Where Charles de Gaulle was born
- French city near the Belgian border
- An industrial city in northern France near the Belgian border
- Was the medieval capital of Flanders
- French university city
- Capital of Nord, France
- Kind of lace
- City SE of Dunkerque
- Capital of Flanders: 17th century
- City in N France
- Nord department capital
- French university site
- French lace-making city
- City on Eurostar routes from London to Paris and Brussels
Wikipedia
Lille (; ) is a city in northern France, in French Flanders. On the Deûle River, near France's border with Belgium, it is the capital of the Hauts-de-France region and the prefecture of the Nord department.
As of 2009, Lille had a population of 226,827 within its administrative limits, and an urban population of 1,015,744, making it the fourth largest urban area in France after Paris, Lyon and Marseille.
Lille is a large city in France.
Lille may also refer to:
- Lille (song), Lisa Hannigan's debut single taken from her album Sea Sew
- Lille OSC, a French football club
In places:
- Lille, Belgium, a municipality in Belgium
- Arrondissement of Lille, the arrondissement with the city of Lille as its capital, in France
- Lille, the alternate old name of the town Grand Isle, Maine, USA
"Lille" is the debut solo single by Lisa Hannigan, taken from her award-nominated debut album Sea Sew. It received its world premiere on Tony Fenton's Today FM show on 31 July 2008, demoed on lisahannigan.com and was later released as a free download in Ireland on 25 August 2008.
Lille became an airplay hit on Irish and American radio stations and earned the admiration of the Grammy-nominated Californian singer-songwriter Jason Mraz who invited Hannigan to support him on a 42-date US tour in late 2008 Hannigan then signed with ATO Records in the US, where her album was released in February 2009, although it is currently available from the US's iTunes Store.
Hannigan performed "Lille" on The Late Late Show on 12 September 2008.
The song was also performed at the nominations ceremony of the 2009 Mercury Prize in London when Sea Sew was shortlisted for the award. The performance preceded increased media interest in the singer in the United Kingdom.
The song features in the Neil Jordan film Ondine.
Usage examples of "lille".
I was spending a summer near Lille with my cousin, De Larielle, I was informed one evening, just as we were sitting down to dinner, that a young priest wished to speak to me.
Lille, Haubourdin, Canteleu, Lomme et toutes les villes du Nord de la France et Belgique.
Dunkirk on the sea to Lille, that fair city, well inland in northern France, and could follow the battle line from Pilken beyond Ypres to La Bassee.
He remembered the time he visited Jim Tift at the military hospital in Lille.
Her dispositions assumed an attack in Lorraine, and her northern fortifications round Lille, Maubeuge, and Hirson were feeble compared with those of Belfort, Toul, and Verdun.
Lille, and Menin the pivot of a turning movement which should liberate Brussels, isolate Von Beseler in Antwerp, and threaten the rear of the German position along the Aisne.
Marshal Mortier, who commanded at Lille, and the Duke of Orleans, expressed to me their well-founded fears, and repeatedly recommended me to urge the King to quit Lille speedily, in order to avoid any fatal occurrence.
She was indeed none other than Madame Angelin, coming quickly from the Rue de Lille, on her way to the homes of her poor, with the little chain of her little bag encircling her wrist.
With two bridgeheads,-we pushed forward again at once and on 27 May reached the area south of Lille.
James Bond confidently bancoed the Lille tycoon on his left, won, made up the cagnotte with a few small counters, and doubled the stake to two thousand New Francs - two hundred thousand of the old.
When Guy de Blois went bankrupt, Coucy had proposed Froissart for a canonry of Lille which had so far not materialized.
La Societé colombophile lilloise—the Lille Society of Pigeon-fanciers—is large and active, with hundreds, it could even be thousands, of members, and with several meeting halls in the proletarian districts of the city.
After the first pigeon-fancier agrees this is indeed the Madame Léa he has in mind—heaven only knows how many shady kikes operate under the same surely false name in Lille!
More discouraging to me than the Russian defeats in Galicia is the check of our offensive around Arras, which without doubt was not a local action intended only to gain a strategic position, but was an attempt to break the German lines, deliver Lille, and determine a German retreat from the north of France.
At Lille, an insurrection breaks out Messidor 4, because the municipality, paying nine francs for bread, can give it to the poor only for about twenty and thirty sous.