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Wels

British  
/ vɛls /

noun

  1. an industrial city in N central Austria, in Upper Austria. Pop: 56 478 (2002)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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At its height, tourists flocked to what Wels describes as the “wild woodland” in Upstate New York, with orchards, livestock, “whizzing mills” and women with “queer cropped hair and shamelessly short skirts.”

From Washington Post • Feb. 2, 2023

The lead came from prosecutors in Wels, Austria.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 5, 2022

As an alternative, some theorists suggest that Nessie's witnesses have actually spotted a wayward sturgeon or an introduced Wels catfish.

From National Geographic • May 23, 2018

But he still does a few noodling segments for other outdoor television productions each year and recently went to Spain to noodle for giant Wels catfish.

From Washington Times • Jun. 29, 2015

Mainz and Bonn were taken in the first campaign, but Charles in travelling from Vienna to the front died suddenly at Wels on the 18th of April 1690.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" by Various

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