(1) But we weren't there for museums; we had come to see creativity at grass-roots level – in the oldest part of the city, Le Panier.
(2) By then, with its wave-like Pavillon M on the newly pedestrianised Vieux Port, the city will feel smart, cultured and maybe not very much like Marseille – so be sure to make time, after the old masters and modern treasures, to check out a different sort of genius among the women of Le Panier.
(3) We thought we were meeting Eva, tourist "greeter" and founder of artists' network Les Femmes du Panier, at Marseille's town hall at 3.30pm.
(4) In another city such a district might have been colonised by the middle-class and hip, but Le Panier has kept its character.
(5) The hosts of Le Panier, or The Breadbasket, talkshow were speaking when when attackers with knives burst in.
(6) In her shop on rue du Panier, we watched as she took a red-flowered dress that was a little big on one customer and with two minutes' work on her sewing machine had it fitting like couture.
(7) A handwritten notice proclaims that in Le Panier, art is public; another asks politely for donations from fans and photographers.
(8) Turning my back on the ambitious, it was easier to focus on the charm of the old Panier district.
Pannier
Definition:
(n.) A bread basket; also, a wicker basket (used commonly in pairs) for carrying fruit or other things on a horse or an ass
(n.) A shield of basket work formerly used by archers as a shelter from the enemy's missiles.
(n.) A table waiter at the Inns of Court, London.
(n.) A framework of steel or whalebone, worn by women to expand their dresses; a kind of bustle.
Example Sentences:
(1) I can't remember …" "Lying to Michael Howard," Mair reminds him, before Johnson finally collapses in a heap, his lights, pannier bag and reputation strewn across the bicycle lane.
(2) Recently, we showed that a highly purified cap-binding protein complex composed of the p220 and p28 subunits of eukaryotic initiation factor 4F, in a 1:1 molar ratio, restores protein synthesis in these cell-free translation systems (Lamphear, B.J., and Panniers, R. (1990) J. Biol.
(3) Initiation rates are quantified by measuring the amount of protein synthesis resulting from the run-off of ribosomes which have initiated during defined intervals in a modified in vitro protein-synthesizing system developed from Ehrlich ascites tumor cell lysates (Henshaw, E.C., and Panniers, R. (1983) Methods Enzymol.
(4) Support for this comes from recent studies showing inhibition of protein synthesis by calmodulin antagonists in Ehrlich ascites tumor cells (Kumar, R. V., Panniers, R., Wolfman, A., and Henshaw, E.C.
(5) Sitting behind the desk in his pleasant corner office in a blue sweatshirt, with a pile of manuscripts to bundle into his bicycle panniers to take back to the north-west London home he shares with his wife, writer Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Franklin radiates competence rather than glamour.