Meissen
a city in E central Germany, on the Elbe River: famous for fine porcelain.
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The Daily Pic: Arlene Shechet reveals the inner workings of Meissen.
It was a Samson copy of a Meissen and she was the muse of music, that figure.
I shall begin with Old Dresden, which is the first that we come to from Meissen.
The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume I | Karl Ludwig von PllnitzThe inhabitants of Joachimsthal, on the frontiers between Bohemia and Meissen, were the chief sufferers from this violence.
The Thirty Years War, Complete | Friedrich SchillerAlbert, the eldest of the children, was now fourteen years old; he was at the Royal school in Meissen, and there he remained.
Richard Wagner | John F. Runciman
"You appear to be a methodical boy, Teddy," he remarked with a yawn, at the same time choosing a Meissen ware dish as an ash tray.
I Walked in Arden | Jack CrawfordOne evening, as he was walking in the fields near Meissen, meditating and praying, he was disturbed by the croaking of the frogs.
Curiosities of Christian History | Croake James
British Dictionary definitions for Meissen
/ (German ˈmaisən) /
a town in E Germany, in Saxony, in Dresden district on the River Elbe: famous for its porcelain (Dresden china), first made here in 1710. Pop: 28 640 (2003 est)
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