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Frisches Haff

American  
[frish-is hahf] / ˈfrɪʃ ɪs ˈhɑf /

noun

  1. a lagoon in N Poland. 52 miles (84 km) long; 4–12 miles (6–19 km) wide.


Frisches Haff British  
/ ˈfrɪʃəs ˈhaf /

noun

  1. the German name for Vistula

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Into the Haff flow the Nogat, the Elbing, the Passarge, the Pregel and the Frisching, from the last of which the name Frisches Haff probably arose.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various

In the ensuing year he was appointed canon of Frauenburg, the cathedral city of the Diocese of Ermland, situated on the shores of the Frisches Haff.

From The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' by Orchard, Thomas Nathaniel

The Memel is silting up the Kurisches Haff, which, like the Frisches Haff, is separated from the open sea by a line of dunes comparable with those of the Landes in France.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" by Various

BRAUNSBERG, a town of Germany, in the kingdom of Prussia, 38 m. by rail S.W. of K�nigsberg, on the Passarge, 4 m. from its mouth in the Frisches Haff.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various

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