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/lˈætən kwˈɔrtər/ Listen

Latin Quarter

noun

The region of Paris on the southern bank of the Seine; a center of artistic and student life. Synonym: Left Bank.

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"Latin Quarter" Quotes from Famous Books

... have homes on Central Park West, to the frail winged moths who flutter up and down Broadway, this section does not exist. Its poor are not the picturesque poor of the city's Latin quarter, its criminals seldom win to the notoriety of a front page and inch-high headlines; it almost never produces a genius for the world to smile upon—its talent does not often break away from the undefined, but none the less certain, ...

— The Island of Faith • Margaret E. Sangster

... its hangings. There in the time of the sand lot riots Dennis Kearney, who nearly pulled the town down about his ears, used to make his orations which set the unruly to rioting. In these later years Chinatown laid on one side of it and the Latin quarter and the "Barbary Coast" on ...

— Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror • Richard Linthicum

Words linked to "Latin Quarter" : neck of the woods, Quai d'Orsay, French capital, City of Light, capital of France, vicinity, neighbourhood, locality, neighborhood, Paris