Meanings of banlieue in English

These two alone will strike terror to the heart of the banlieue.

Paris, centre, banlieue, circumference; this constitutes all the earth to those children.

A nod was made to segregation, discrimination, poor housing and banlieue ghettos.

Gavroche looked and saw that this came from the men of the banlieue.

FRANCE: Unrest in la banlieue has been a regular feature of French life since 1981.

The sergeant of the banlieue lent an ear.

There are fears of banlieue riots on the scale of 2005, when violence gripped several French cities.

Power being uneasy, held suspended over the menacing multitude twenty-four thousand soldiers in the city and thirty thousand in the banlieue.

But, to the fury of many voters in the banlieue, Hollande went back on that promise and such police checks continue unmonitored.

Within a quarter of an hour the first cars were torched in Clichy-sous-Bois, the banlieue north of Paris where the youths lived.

He held the scales of justice in all the Abbey banlieue which stretched over many a mile of Hampshire and of Surrey.

Still, what Loti pathetically describes as 'une banalité de banlieue parisienne,' was even then too painfully casting its vulgar shadows before it.

She says growing up in Aubervilliers has prepared her well for life as an entrepreneur, and she is proud of her banlieue roots.

Therefore, I demand justice upon this man in the Abbey court, the said assault having been committed within the banlieue of the Abbey's jurisdiction.

For him, the repeated banlieue action plans were useful lifelines but not enough to undo years of an unofficial policy of segregation by the state.

But some people remain stuck in the banlieues for many years.