noun
Etymology
Origin of Christiania
First recorded in 1900–05
Example Sentences
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If you want dinner with a literary patina, grab the French onion soup at Michel’s Christiania, a favorite of longtime resident Ernest Hemingway.
There were celebratory claps and cheers of "Christiania", as locals prised up heavy cobblestones and tossed them into wheelbarrows, one by one.
From BBC
Prag, who has lived in Christiania for 37 years, likened it to “a village.”
From Seattle Times
The residents are fighting to preserve Christiania’s reputation as a “free-wheeling society” made up of political idealists and aging hippies.
From Seattle Times
In 2015, the restaurant announced it was closing at the end of 2016 and reopened near its waterfront premises with its own vegetable farm in the vicinity of the hippie enclave of Christiania in Copenhagen.
From Seattle Times
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