Cleves

American  

[kleevz] / klivz /

noun

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

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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

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 ● Mar. 9, 2023

Henry sent him to paint Anne of Cleves, to help the monarch decide whether to make her his fourth wife.

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

Balderic of Cleves the fifteenth Bishop of Utrecht, caus'd this City to be encompass'd with Walls; and Charles V. built its Castle, which has at present nine Bastions, two Half-moons, and a Hornwork.

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