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Paris   /pˈɛrɪs/  /pˈærɪs/   Listen
Paris

noun
1.
The capital and largest city of France; and international center of culture and commerce.  Synonyms: capital of France, City of Light, French capital.
2.
Sometimes placed in subfamily Trilliaceae.  Synonym: genus Paris.
3.
(Greek mythology) the prince of Troy who abducted Helen from her husband Menelaus and provoked the Trojan War.
4.
A town in northeastern Texas.



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"Paris" Quotes from Famous Books



... that a young lady of haut ton in Paris was observed to have a tall fellow always following her wherever she went. Her grandmother one day asked her what occasion there was for that man to be always following her; to which she replied—"I must blow my nose, must not I, when I want?" This great genius was actually employed to carry ...
— Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. • Pierce Egan
... see, in Paris, but we had enough to live in a pretty little appartement, very different from this. My brother Adolphe wrote articles for a paper of celebrity on political affairs; he had a great name for them, and if the ...
— Susan - A Story for Children • Amy Walton
... becomes an all-involving passion, emulating in its fury the great plagues of history. Of such kind was the craze in Versailles in 1793, when about a quarter of the whole population perished by the scourge; while that at the Hotel des Invalides in Paris was only a notable one of the many which have occurred during the present century. At such times it is as if the optic nerve of the mind throughout whole communities became distorted, till in the noseless and black-robed Reaper it discerned an angel of very loveliness. As a brimming ...
— Prince Zaleski • M.P. Shiel
... literature of the Kalmucks is borrowed entirely from the same source. The Ramayana, or great Hindu poem, must have had its origin in the history-to-be of Christ. It has been translated into Italian and published in Paris. The Hitopadesa, a collection of fables and apologues, has been translated into more languages than any book except the Bible. It has found its way all over the civilized world, and is the model of the fables ...
— The Interdependence of Literature • Georgina Pell Curtis
... who marries ANASTASIA JAY Will (except in Paris) Get his little way, Fear no interference; Relatives remain,— But their disappearance ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 102, Feb. 20, 1892 • Various


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