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Aarau

American  
[ahr-ou] / ˈɑr aʊ /

noun

  1. a town in and capital of Aargau, in N Switzerland.


Aarau British  
/ ˈaːrau /

noun

  1. a town in N Switzerland, capital of Aargau canton: capital of the Helvetic Republic from 1798 to 1803. Pop: 15 470 (2000)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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He stored them in the cavernous depot he had built under his castle at Brestenberg, near the Swiss city of Aarau.

From New York Times • Feb. 7, 2023

Stepping in close, I found a few little black marks left in the soft metal by the compressed sand in which the cube had been molded in Aarau, Switzerland.

From New York Times • Feb. 2, 2022

Until a few years ago, he had a day job teaching clarinet to children at the Aarau Music School.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 29, 2019

The composer Jürg Frey, one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary music, has spent almost his entire life in the vicinity of the Swiss town of Aarau, about thirty miles west of Zurich.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 29, 2019

The first line, between Zurich and Aarau, was completed in 1847, but general railroad enterprise did not develop until after 1860.

From The Railroad Question A historical and practical treatise on railroads, and remedies for their abuses by Larrabee, William

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