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‖ ville lumière|vil lymjɛr| [Fr., = town or city of light(s).] A brightly-lit city or town; an exciting modern city or town; la Ville Lumière, Paris.
1920W. J. Locke House of Baltazar xiv. 166 London ceased to be a city of dreadful night. In his enthusiastic eyes it had almost become a ville lumière. 1922A. M. Hyamson Dict. Eng. Phrases 353/2 Ville Lumière, La, (Fr., the light-city; the city of lights): Paris. 1923W. J. Locke Moordius & Co. vii. 94 We are but nursing the lamp of la Ville Lumière till better times. 1955E. Waugh Officers & Gentlemen 137 Cape Town at the extremity of two dark continents was a ville lumière such as Trimmer had sought in vain. 1980Listener 25 Sept. 389/1 The Eiffel Tower..proclaimed la ville lumière to be the modernist capital. |