Courland

Or Kur·land

[koor-luhnd]

noun

1. a former duchy on the Baltic: later, a province of Russia and, in 1918, incorporated into Latvia.

Courland

/ ˈkʊələnd /

noun

1. Latvian name: Kurzeme. a region of Latvia, between the Gulf of Riga and the Lithuanian border

Example Sentences

Peter Smith, 64, was on the Caribbean island with wife Jo and friends when he was attacked in Courland Bay on Friday morning.

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Between his marriage to Anna and attending the weird dwarf wedding, Frederick William, the Duke of Courland, drank a lot.

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The Duke in question was Ernst Johann von Biron, the Duke of Courland, for whom the palace was built between 1736 and 1740 by the Italian architect Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli as a summer residence.

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Rupert went out in his boat to sound for the channel, and while thus occupied, came upon a ship belonging to the Duke of Courland, on the Baltic.

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Courland, Ship from, 256, 258.

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