Montparnasse

[ mawn-par-nas ]

noun
  1. a district in S Paris, France, on the left bank of the Seine: noted for its cafés and the artists and writers who have frequented and lived in the area.

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How to use Montparnasse in a sentence

  • And those memorable dinners in the old studio back of the Gare Montparnasse!

    The Real Latin Quarter | F. Berkeley Smith
  • You will see a family of rich bourgeois enter, just in from the country, for the Montparnasse station is opposite.

    The Real Latin Quarter | F. Berkeley Smith
  • Monsieur Dorinet, are you not tired of seeing La Montparnasse in that everlasting old black gown?

    In the Days of My Youth | Amelia Ann Blandford Edwards
  • That night there was great excitement in the Montparnasse quarter.

  • There's a little hotel I know in the Boulevard Montparnasse.

    A Crooked Mile | Oliver Onions

British Dictionary definitions for Montparnasse

Montparnasse

/ (French mɔ̃parnas) /


noun
  1. a district of S Paris, on the left bank of the Seine: noted for its cafés, frequented by artists, writers, and students

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