Pforzheim

[ fawrts-hahym; German pfawrts-hahym ]

noun
  1. a city in W Baden-Württemberg, in SW Germany.

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How to use Pforzheim in a sentence

  • Their mother had a relative, named Elizabeth, a sister of the well-known distinguished scholar Reuchlin, residing in Pforzheim.

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  • Some of them called the next day at Pforzheim, to see the Friends again before they left.

  • The same success which the Pforzheim young men had with their country neighbors generally, they had with Madge.

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  • Pforzheim fell sidewise against the pink wall of petrol tins, still hung up by his apparat, and dribbling scarlet over the pink.

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  • When she next comes to the surface, she had fallen in with Pforzheim at Washington, and was falling out with him in Paris.

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British Dictionary definitions for Pforzheim

Pforzheim

/ (German ˈpfɔrtshaim ) /


noun
  1. a city in SW Germany, in W Baden-Württemberg: centre of the German watch and jewellery industry. Pop: 119 046 (2003 est)

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