Cleves

American  

[kleevz] / klivz /

noun

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

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Example Sentences

Thomas Cromwell, the powerful courtier who helped engineer Boleyn’s rise and then her fall, was another satisfied client—at least until 1540, when Cromwell was executed after setting up a marriage, between Henry and Anne of Cleves, that ended in annulment rather than marital bliss.

From The Wall Street Journal

Monica Missio, the mother of victim Nicholas Cleves, told the courtroom: "It disgusts me that he gets to wake up every day while my son does not."

From BBC

Calum Nall is a chef at the Anne of Cleves pub in Melton Mowbray, which is located next door to the church that hosts the pie awards.

From BBC

You’ll laugh over Jerome K. Jerome’s “Three Men in a Boat,” your heart will break during Madame de Lafayette’s “The Princess of Cleves,” you’ll thrill to “Njal’s Saga,” you’ll feel smarter for having spent time with James Boswell’s “Life of Samuel Johnson.”

From Washington Post

“Don Quixote” and “Clarissa” are rightly here — they are foundational novels that shaped a new genre — but where is Madame de La Fayette’s equally foundational “The Princess of Clèves”? One novel by Virginia Woolf and two by Ursula K. Le Guin?

From Washington Post