Liffey

[ lif-ee ]

/ ˈlɪf i /

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noun

a river in the E Republic of Ireland, flowing NW and NE from County Wicklow into Dublin Bay. 50 miles (81 km) long.

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How to use Liffey in a sentence

Four men in chariots were on the Plain of Liffey at their game, Conaire himself and his three fosterbrothers.
The Harvard Classics, Volume 49, Epic and Saga|Various
How is it, man, when there's a Peace on and the month is February and there's no frost south of the Liffey?
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 158, February 4, 1920|Various
I moved among them on the frozen Liffey, that I, a changeling, among the spluttering resin fires.
Ulysses|James Joyce
"'Tis like a fête and gala on the old stinking Liffey," says Peter Bligh, peering with me across the busy sea.
The House Under the Sea|Sir Max Pemberton

A covey of gulls, storm petrels, rises hungrily from Liffey slime with Banbury cakes in their beaks.
Ulysses|James Joyce

British Dictionary definitions for Liffey

Liffey

/ (ˈlɪfɪ) /

noun

a river in E Republic of Ireland, rising in the Wicklow Mountains and flowing west, then northeast through Dublin into Dublin Bay. Length: 80 km (50 miles)

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