Tours
[tuə;tu:r]
Definition
(noun.) an industrial city in western France on the Loire River.
Editor: Luke--From WordNet
Examples
- In his automobile he has made long tours, and with his family has particularly indulged his taste for botany. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- From Boulogne to Dieppe, from Dieppe to Caen, from Caen to Tours--trying with all her might to be respectable, and alas! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Charles Aoisseau, the potter of Tours, born in 1796, rediscovered and revived the art of Palissy. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Later he went to France, where he was consulted in regard to the new line that was building between Orleans and Tours. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Here Edison, throwing himself down, sometimes seeks a short rest during specially long working tours. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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