Mechlin

American  

[mek-lin] / ˈmɛk lɪn /

noun

1. Flemish Mechelen.  French Malines.  a city in N Belgium.

2. Mechlin lace.

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Mechlin British  

/ ˈmɛklɪn /

noun

1. the English name for Mechelen

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Example Sentences

With John of Goch at Mechlin, and John Wesel whom they expelled from Paris, I have heard it was just the same.

From Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family by Charles, Elizabeth Rundle

It was formerly dependant on the Bishopric of Tournay; but since the Reign of Philip II. it has been erected into a Bishop's See, which is now Suffragan to the Archbishopric of Mechlin.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume III Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von

In the city of Mechlin, Beaufort published the papal bull.

From Curious Church Customs and Cognate Subjects by Andrews, William

He had previously outlined the project in his Rapport sur les études philosophiques at the Congress of Mechlin in 1891.

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter

Other English towns in the Midland counties followed the lead chiefly of Mechlin, Valenciennes, Lille, and Arras, but were rarely as successful as their leaders.

From Arts and Crafts Essays by Members of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society by Various