Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to the Rhine River or the lands bordering on it.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to the Rhine, a river of Europe which rises in Switzerland, traverses Germany and the Netherlands, and empties into the North Sea.
- noun Rhine or Rhenish wine. See
wine .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the river Rhine.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective From, residing or located by, or pertaining to the
Rhine . - noun wine from the area around the
Rhine .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to the Rhine River and the lands adjacent to it
- noun any of several white wines from the Rhine River valley in Germany (`hock' is British usage)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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It is known as a Rhenish helm – a style imported from the Rhineland in the time of Edward the Confessor, and this is the only surviving British example.
Early medieval architecture in Britain: examples from the era 2011
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Symphony No. 3 in E flat Major "Rhenish" - our bi-polar Renaissance man was all happy when he wrote this one.
onegoodmove 2010
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By this Act the Kings of Bavaria and Würtemberg, the Elector of Baden, and thirteen minor princes, united themselves, in the League known as the Rhenish Confederacy, under the protection of the French Emperor, and undertook to furnish contingents, amounting to 63,000 men, in all wars in which the French Empire should engage.
A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878 Charles Alan Fyffe 1868
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[bo] ttles of Hock alias Rhenish [wine] - folio 41 recto -
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Goeschen took the Thalia (dropping the 'Rhenish'),
The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Thomas, Calvin, 1854-1919 1901
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Göschen took the _Thalia_ (dropping the 'Rhenish'), Schiller paid his more pressing debts, and early in April was on his way to Leipzig, panting for the new friends as the hart panteth after the water-brooks.
The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Calvin Thomas 1886
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American free enterprise works, and so does Swedish social democracy, the interventionist "Rhenish" model works, and so does the quite different Japanese version.
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American free enterprise works, and so does Swedish social democracy, the interventionist "Rhenish" model works, and so does the quite different Japanese version.
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"Symphony No. 3 in E flat major (" Rhenish "), Op. 97 [Lebhaft]"
NPR Topics: News 2010
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Five surprisesProm 15 Wed 28 JulySchumann and Colin Matthews, BBC Symphony Orchestra/KnussenFabulous violinist Leila Josefowicz gives the London premiere of Colin Matthews's Violin Concerto in a concert of Zimmermann, Birtwistle and Schumann's "Rhenish" Symphony.
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