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cote d'azur

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.47 in modern English

Syllables
cote d'azur
IPA
21
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

Alternative form of Côte d'Azur (“French Riviera”).

noun

The warning track at the bottom of a velodrome, a non-racing surface representing the base of the banked oval course.

Informal

Etymology

From French Côte d'Azur, from côte (“coast”)+azur (“azure”) * (cycling): From being a light blue coloured margin; light blue being akin to azure and a margin being akin to a coast; also seeming like a band of water, reminiscent of the waters of the French Riviera.

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Inflected Forms

the Cote d'Azur (canonical)

Questions

What does cote d'azur mean?
Alternative form of Côte d'Azur (“French Riviera”).
Where does cote d'azur come from?
It is traced to French.

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