Cleves

American  

[kleevz] / klivz /

noun

1. a city in W North Rhine-Westphalia, in W Germany.

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Cleves

Past “The Arrest of Anne Boleyn,” an 1870 painting in which she wears the face and dress of Holbein’s Anne of Cleves, and into the Book of Hours Room.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026

Sent to portray a potential fourth wife, Anne of Cleves, before Henry ever saw her, Holbein came back with such a lovely painting that Henry had musicians play to celebrate.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 16, 2020

Our sense of doom mounts as, after Jane’s death, Cromwell arranges Henry’s disastrous marriage to Anne of Cleves, thus galvanizing the unfortunate fixer’s enemies to arrange his downfall.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 6, 2020

“It’s a giant project. It’s just so complicated,” said Mayor Charlie Cleves.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 9, 2019

He had to his first Wife Louisa-Dorothea-Sophia only Daughter of the King of Prussia, at which time he was Stadtholder of Cleves, and had a Regiment of Foot in his Majesty's Service.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume III Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by Karl Ludwig von P?llnitz

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