The French term ceinture means belt, waist, or ring, and may refer to a
ring road
A ring road (also known as circular road, beltline, beltway, circumferential (high)way, loop, bypass or orbital) is a road or a series of connected roads encircling a town, city, or country. The most common purpose of a ring road is to assist i ...
or a rail route round a city.
Petite ceinture may refer to:
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Chemin de fer de Petite Ceinture
Paris' former Chemin de fer de Petite Ceinture ('small(er) belt railway'), also colloquially known as ''La Petite Ceinture'', was a circular railway built as a means to supply the city's fortification walls, and as a means of transporting merch ...
around Paris
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Small ring (Brussels)
The Small Ring (french: Petite Ceinture, nl, Kleine Ring) inner ring road, formally R20 and N0 is a series of roadways in central Brussels, Belgium, surrounding the historic city centre. The city centre is usually defined as the area within t ...
, a series of roadways surrounding the city centre
Grande ceinture may refer to:
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Grande Ceinture line
The Grande Ceinture line (French - ''Ligne de Grande Ceinture'') is a railway line round Paris 15 km from the Boulevard Périphérique. The decision to build it was taken at the end of the 19th century, to connect the radial lines linking ...
around Paris
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Greater ring (Brussels)
The Greater Ring or Intermediate Ring in Brussels, Belgium ( French: ''Moyenne Ceinture'', Dutch: ''Middenring'') is a set of roads in the shape of a ring, intermediate between the Small Ring and the main Brussels Ring motorway. The greater part o ...
in Brussels
See also
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Ceintures de Lyon
The ceintures de Lyon ('Belts of Lyon') were a series of fortifications built between 1830 and 1890 around the city of Lyon, France, to protect the city from foreign invasion.
The belts comprised two defensive barriers that included forts, l ...
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Ceinture rouge The Ceinture Rouge ('Red Belt') refers to the communes of the Île-de-France that were dominated by the French Communist Party from the 1920s until the 1980s. These communes are those that are traditionally working-class areas whose residents were e ...
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Ceinture fléchée
The ceinture fléchée (French for "arrowed sash"; English: L'Assomption sash or "arrow sash") is a type of colourful sash, a traditional piece of Québécois clothing linked to at least the 17th century (of the Lower Canada, Canada East and ...
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Maître Gims
Gandhi Bilel Djuna (; born 6 May 1986), better known by his stage name Maître Gims () and more recently just Gims (, ; sometimes stylized as GIMS), is a Congolese-French rapper, singer and songwriter. He grew up in France and currently lives i ...
, singer who released album ''La Ceinture Noire''.
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