Wilhelmstrasse
//ˌvɪl.hɛlmˈstɹɑ.sə// name
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Definitions
Proper Noun
- 1 A thoroughfare in central Berlin, formerly the location of the German Chancellery and Foreign Office.
- 2 The German government or Foreign Office. historical, metonymically
"The immediate effect, however, was that all the ingenious calculations of the Wilhelmstrasse came clattering to the ground like a house of cards."
Example
More examples"The immediate effect, however, was that all the ingenious calculations of the Wilhelmstrasse came clattering to the ground like a house of cards."
Etymology
Borrowed from German Wilhelmstraße, from the name of Prussian King Frederick William I (Friedrich Wilhelm I.) + Straße (“street”).
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