Syndicat d'Initiativen.
Also with lower-case initials. [French] In France, an association for promoting tourism; a tourist information office.
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1911 W. J. Locke Glory of Clementina Wing ix. 128 The quarter of the town on which the Syndicat d'Initiative prides itself.
1926 E. Hemingway Sun also Rises ii. x. 92 We went..to the local Syndicat d'Initiative office.
1965 Harper's Bazaar Jan. 73/2 The local tourist offices—the syndicats d'initiative in France.
1968 F. White Ways of Aquitaine 170 Almost all towns and many villages have syndicats d'initiative. These are information offices, which will give the tourist local lists of hotels and places of interest.
1972 D. Lees Zodiac 85 It's not the sort of thing the Syndicat d'Initiative likes to have get around but it does rain in Antibes every now and again.
1981 C. Watson Bishop in Back Seat xxxvi. 208 I would go to the Gendarmerie, the Syndicat d'Initiative.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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