Moselle

//məʊˈzɛl// name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A light white wine, made from Riesling grapes originating in the valley of this river. countable, uncountable

    "I drank too much moselle, imagining it a mere diuretic."

  2. 2
    German white wine from the Moselle valley or a similar wine made elsewhere wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    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.
  2. 2
    A department of Grand Est, France.

Synonyms

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wine

Example

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"For more than eight hundred years now, German settlers, mainly from the region of the Moselle and Rhine, have lived in Transylvania under the rule of Hungarian kings, the Habsburg empire and Ceaușescu’s communism."

Etymology

Borrowed from French Moselle, from Latin Mosella.

Related phrases

Meurthe-et-MosellePagny-sur-Mosellegrand estwhite wine

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