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East Prussian

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adjective

  1. of or relating to the former German province of East Prussia or its inhabitants

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noun

  1. a native or inhabitant of the former East Prussia

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Example Sentences

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Five years earlier, Günter Grass had published “Crabwalk,” a fictionalized account of the 1945 sinking of a ship bearing thousands of East Prussian refugees.

From New York Times • May 25, 2018

They were evidence to one East Prussian farmer that "an age has come to its end," because the moral sanctions by which until then men had lived had lost all meaning.

From Time Magazine Archive

Near the East Prussian border with Lithuania stood the windmill of Tauroggen.

From Time Magazine Archive

Red bombs rained on the East Prussian junction town of Tilsit, whose railroads lead to Insterburg and K�nigsberg.

From Time Magazine Archive

In his wet-weather mood it seemed to him entirely absurd and unworthy to be wading through an East Prussian farmyard mess in pouring rain, beneath an umbrella, in order to sit with a woman.

From The Pastor's Wife by Arnim, Elizabeth von