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Le Cateau-Cambrésis

/lə ka.to.kɑ̃.bʁe.zi/

proper noun/lə ka.to.kɑ̃.bʁe.zi/

Le Cateau-Cambrésis (a city in France)

The first part is a non-palatalized variant of le château (“the castle”); the second part, instead, Cambrésis, is a relational adjective from Cambrai: the name would thus mean "The Castle in the Cambrayshire"