Cleves

name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    plural of cleve form-of, plural
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Kleve (a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany). historical

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"The Princess of Cleves being at those years, wherein people think a woman is incapable of inciting love after the age of twenty-five, beheld with the utmost astonishment the King's passion for the Duchess, who was a grandmother, and had lately married her granddaughter."

Etymology

From French Clèves, from Old High German Cleve, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *klibą (“cliff”). Cognate with English cliff. There is no connection with German Klee (“clover”), the clovers in the city's coat of arms being an example of canting arms.

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