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Coblenz

American  
[koh-blents] / ˈkoʊ blɛnts /
Or Koblenz

noun

  1. a city in W Germany, at the junction of the Rhine and Moselle rivers.


Coblenz British  
/ ˈkoːblɛnts /

noun

  1. a variant spelling of Koblenz

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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On his Rhine journey he may stop off in Coblenz to hear Johann Strauss's A Night in Venice, waterborne on a float in a quiet inlet of the river.

From Time Magazine Archive

The fall of Coblenz, headquarters of U.S. occupation after World War I, was only an incident in a swift clatter of events in the southern Rhineland.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some 500 prisoners rounded up in Coblenz were tatterdemalion survivors of 15 or 20 different outfits.

From Time Magazine Archive

The wiping out of the Wesel bridgehead brought Eisenhower's armies up to a practically unbroken 150-mile front on the Rhine, from Nijmegen to Coblenz.

From Time Magazine Archive

The old nun’s gossip does not delay the hapless Ida’s departure, and Gerbert, who hears of her illness on the shores of the Boden See, arrives at Coblenz only to have tidings of her death.

From Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 by Eileen Power

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