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Maeander

British  
/ miːˈændə /

noun

  1. Also spelt: Meander.  ancient name of the river Menderes

"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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The Maeander valley is especially noted for its hot springs.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" by Various

A week the army stayed in camp by the pleasant waters of the Maeander, and daily at noon Gilbert and Beatrix met at the same place.

From Via Crucis by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)

This kind of country lasts for a four-days' passage, and the Nile here winds as much as the Maeander.

From How I Found Livingstone; travels, adventures, and discoveres in Central Africa, including an account of four months' residence with Dr. Livingstone, by Henry M. Stanley by Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton)

Tissaphernes suspecting another feint, now dispersed his cavalry in the plain of the Maeander.

From A Smaller history of Greece From the earliest times to the Roman conquest by Smith, William, Sir

West of the acropolis were the palace of Xerxes and the Agora, in or near which is the cavern whence the Marsyas, one of the sources of the Maeander, issues.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various

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