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Embden

American  
[em-duhn] / ˈɛm dən /
Or Emden

noun

  1. one of a breed of large, white domestic geese having orange shanks, toes, and bill.


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“We believe there is significant potential to extract value from the Life and Asset Management businesses, which should be crystallised in the next three years,” analyst Andreas Van Embden writes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025

But many of those Agues which had continued for some Time, especially with those Invalids who came from Embden, or who had brought on frequent Relapses by their own Irregularities, were very obstinate.

From An Account of the Diseases which were most frequent in the British military hospitals in Germany by Donald Monro

Sept. 22nd, stilo veteri, I delivered to Mr. Jacob for England by Embden my letters.

From The Private Diary of Dr. John Dee And the Catalog of His Library of Manuscripts by John Dee

John Alasco, a Polish nobleman, being expelled his country by the rigors of the Catholics, settled during some time at Embden in East Friezland, where he became preacher to a congregation of the reformed.

From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C. From Henry VII. to Mary by David Hume

Among the crowd of listeners who came to hear the great pianist was Charlotte Embden, the daughter of an excellent Hamburg family.

From Great Violinists And Pianists by George T. (George Titus) Ferris

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