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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

“It is my opinion,” he said, raising his voice, “that Lisa Embden should be sent out of this parish—sent to some city, where her past is not known, and where she can give no scandal.”

From Francezka by Seawell, Molly Elliot

The Ports of Rouen & Dieppe were filled with Ships from Embden & Dantzig with Corn.

From Before and after Waterloo Letters from Edward Stanley, sometime Bishop of Norwich (1802; 1814; 1816) by Stanley, Edward

On that day and the next we met some other ships, but finding them belonging to Rotterdam and Embden, bound for Rochelle, we dismissed them.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07 by Kerr, Robert

Louis Buonaparte, King of Holland, meanwhile, had advanced into Westphalia, and occupied that territory also, with great part of Hanover, East Friesland, Embden, and the dominions of Hesse-Cassel.

From The History of Napoleon Buonaparte by Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson)

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