Definitions
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- adjective Of or pertaining to
Silesia - noun uncountable Upper Silesian, West
Slavic language spoken in southwestern parts ofPoland ,Germany and theCzech Republic . - noun uncountable
Lower Silesian ,Germanic language spoken in southwestern parts of Poland (Lower Silesia). - noun countable An inhabitant of
Silesia .
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Examples
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And somehow I have to find out if I can file a tax return in Upper Mongolia, Outer Silesia and Atlantis, after brushing up on my language skills in Mongolian, Silesian and Atlantisian.
Archive 2007-02-01 Glenda Larke 2007
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Bunzlau, in Silesia, and with him begins what is termed the Silesian era of German poetry -- a time when this country held the first rank in learning and literature among the German States as markedly as Swabia had done in the days of the Minne-singers.
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The 'Silesian' method includes a "soldier sprag" brace wedged between the props underneath the roof bar to reinforce the props against lateral compressive forces.
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Do we hear daily of the plight of the Silesian Germans?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Genetic Evidence Shows Common Origins of Jews 2010
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My Silesian cousin, who now lives in Germany, told me to use stock instead of boiling water – well, yes, this is tastier, but I consider it western decadence.
Family life 2011
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It must have been the same for everyone, because there is a recipe for wodzionka in my Silesian cookery book.
Family life 2011
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Much as I now long for those Silesian dinners, dutifully prepared by my mum before she went to work and left for me on a plate on top of a pan of boiling water to keep warm, I never ate them in those days.
Family life 2011
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On 31 August 1939, German SS soldiers set up an attack on one of their own radio stations at the Polish-German border and the Germans broadcast a message, in Polish, urging Poles to kill the Germans who resided in the Silesian region.
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In the communist Warsaw of the 60s, my Silesian mother's cooking was famed.
Family life 2011
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It was my mother's guilty pleasure, which my sister and I shared – guilty, because being Silesian in Warsaw wasn't easy then; Silesia being the southern region with a large German population, a melting pot of Polish, German and Czech people, with its own, now sadly dying, hilarious dialect, a mixture of all three languages.
Family life 2011
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