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Trois-Rivières

/tʁwa.ʁi.vjɛʁ/

proper noun/tʁwa.ʁi.vjɛʁ/

Trois-Rivières (a city and regional county municipality of Outaouais, Quebec, Canada); Three Rivers

From trois (“three”) + rivières (“rivers”). From the fact that three rivers flow through the area (confluence of two rivers, one flowing into the other, resulting in three channels, two incoming and one outgoing).