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

Even this is not enough for Archbishop Dechamps of Mechlin, who has now proposed four canons anathematizing all defenders of the episcopal system; this has roused the suspicions even of several Bishops of the majority.

From Letters From Rome on the Council by D?llinger, Johann Joseph Ignaz von

F�licie is gone, and Oakes was seen pawning some of my Mechlin the other day, so I have been obliged to discharge her; and they both of them suited me so well!

From Cecil Castlemaine's Gage, Lady Marabout's Troubles, and Other Stories by Ouida

The road between Brussels and Mechlin was opened May 6, 1837, and other roads were soon built; and the railway system of Belgium was the first on the Continent of Europe.

From A History of the Growth of the Steam-Engine by Thurston, Robert H.

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

He early devoted himself to the service of the Church; was ordained priest, March 19,1827; and became at once professor in the ecclesiastical seminary of his native diocese, Mechlin.

From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Rameur, E.