Dordrecht

[ dawr-drekht ]

noun

1. a city in southwest Netherlands, on the Waal River.

Dordrecht

/ ˈdɔrdrɛxt /

noun

1. a port in the SW Netherlands, in South Holland province: chief port of the Netherlands until the 17th century. Pop: 120 000 (2003 est) Also calledDort

Example Sentences

Huge rafts float down from the German forests, and at Dordrecht the logs are sawed by the many windmills.

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Left alone in the big house at Dordrecht, he steadily resisted all temptations to public life.

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This was his neighbour, Isaac Boxtel, who lived next door to him in Dordrecht.

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He bequeathed his three tulip bulbs to Rosa, explained how she must get a certain soil from Dordrecht, and went out calmly to die.

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"One failed, the second produced the black tulip, and the third is at home at Dordrecht," said Boxtel uneasily.

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