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Moselle en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /məʊˈzɛl/
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
Borrowed from French Moselle, from Latin Mosella.
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) A light white wine, made from Riesling grapes originating in the valley of this river.
I drank too much moselle, imagining it a mere diuretic.
1790, James Boswell, edited by Danziger & Brady, Boswell: The Great Biographer, Yale, published 1989, page 28:
Forms
Moselle en · PROPN
Pronunciation
- /məʊˈzɛl/
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
Borrowed from French Moselle, from Latin Mosella.
Meanings
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A left tributary of Rhine, flowing through the departments of Vosges, Meurthe-et-Moselle and Moselle in northeastern France, through Luxembourg, and through the states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland, Germany.
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A department of Grand Est, France.
Deriveds
Pagny-sur-Moselle · Meurthe-et-Moselle
Translations (24)
de Mosel (river) · mr मॉझेल (department) · cmn 摩澤爾 /摩泽尔 (department) · ca Mosel·la (river) · es Mosela (river) · it Mosella (river) · pt Mosela (river) · nl Moezel (river) · lb Musel (river) · bar Mosl (river) · fr Moselle (department) · el Μοζέλ (department) · nb Mosel (river) · oc Mosèla (river) · oc Mosèla (department) · ja モーゼル川 (river) · bg Мозе́л (river) · cmn 摩澤爾 /摩泽尔 (river) · nds-de Mosel (river) · mr मॉझेल (river) · hi मॉज़ेल (river) · fr Moselle (river) · bg Мозе́л (department) · nn Mosel (river)