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Paris(encyclopedia)
Paris 1,(dictionary)
Paris(medicine)
Paris(dictionary)
PARIS(tourism)
Last Tango in Paris(dictionary)
plaster of paris(encyclopedia)
Paris, Treaty of(encyclopedia)
Paris-Match(encyclopedia)

Paris (iou)



Paris noun. L15.
[The capital of France.]
Used attrib. to designate things made or designed in, or associated with, Paris.
Paris ball a tennis ball. Paris blue Prussian blue. Paris club a group of the major creditor nations of the International Monetary Fund, meeting informally in Paris to discuss the financial relations of the IMF member nations. Paris commune: see COMMUNE noun1 2. Paris daisy a bushy plant of the Canary Islands, Argyranthemum frutescens of the composite family, with white-rayed flowers and greyish foliage. Paris embroidery a fine white cord embroidery worked in satin stitch on pique. Paris green a vivid green toxic pigment which is a double salt of copper arsenite and acetate used as an insecticide.
? See also tout Paris s.v. TOUT adjective, plaster of Paris s.v. PLASTER noun 2a.