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Champs Élysées

[ shahn zey-lee-zey ]

noun

  1. a boulevard in Paris, France, noted for its caf és, shops, and theaters.


Champs-Elysées

/ ʃɑ̃z elize; ʃɒnz eɪˈliːzeɪ /

noun

  1. a major boulevard in Paris, leading from the Arc de Triomphe: site of the Elysée Palace and government offices


Champs Élysées

  1. A major avenue in Paris famous for the elegance of its cafés and shops. In French it means Elysian Fields .


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Example Sentences

It was in one such club at the bottom end of the Champs Élysées, which was then under construction, that Baudelaire first saw her.

A couple of years back, Jean-Yves Hepp was driving down the Champs-Élysées and dreaming of couscous.

Four years earlier, Liebling had fled his precious Paris just before the Nazis goose-stepped down the Champs Élysées.

K Street, as everyone knew, was the Champs-Élysées of Washington lobbyists.

All my riding up and down the Champs-Élysées was like to have been for naught.

I have been looking for you for many days; why have you deserted the Champs-Élysées?

I had spent Sunday with my mother and sister, who now lived on the ground‑floor of 108 Champs Élysées.

Off to the north were many lights—the lights of the houses toward the Champs Élysées, and the Arc de Triomphe.

The reason of this was that they were meeting three times a week at five o'clock in a house close to the Champs Élysées.

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