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Moselle

//məʊˈzɛl// name, noun

Definitions

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.
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

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French Moselle, from Latin Mosella.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French Moselle, from Latin Mosella.

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