Rhineland
['rainlænd;-lənd]
Definition
(noun.) a picturesque region of Germany around the Rhine river.
Checker: Peggy--From WordNet
Examples
- A third host began with a great pogrom of the Jews in the Rhineland--for the Christian blood was up--and this multitude was also dispersed in Hungary. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Rhineland children tramped into Italy, many perishing by the way, and there dispersed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- To lay down the pen and even to think of that beautiful Rhineland makes one happy. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- They came through the Rhineland and Italy partly in the search for warlike employment and loot, partly as pilgrims. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Most of Gaul, Holland, and the Rhineland was under the fairly vigorous, Christianized, and much more civilized kingdom of the Franks. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Checker: Vivian