Montreux

/ (French mɔ̃trø) /

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noun

a town and resort in W Switzerland, in Vaud canton on Lake Geneva; annual television festival. Pop: 22 454 (2000)

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Words nearby Montreux

Montrachet, Montreal, Montreal canoe, Montreal North, Montreuil, Montreux, Montrose, Mont-Royal, Mont-Saint-Michel, Montserrat, Montville

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Example sentences from the Web for Montreux

But any real-reality initiative to end the fighting was left to the negotiators meeting last week in Montreux and now in Geneva.
Income Inequality Was Quickly Forgotten at Davos|Christopher Dickey|January 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST
After every visit in these years I left Montreux thinking I might never see Dmitri again.
Remembering Dmitri Nabokov, the Novelist’s Son and Literary Executor|Brian Boyd|May 10, 2012|DAILY BEAST
I now regretted my advice to her and Dmitri, the next time he had come to Montreux, that they should destroy it.
Remembering Dmitri Nabokov, the Novelist’s Son and Literary Executor|Brian Boyd|May 10, 2012|DAILY BEAST
I would see Dmitri most often, when he visited his mother from Monza, in the corridor of the Montreux Palace.
Remembering Dmitri Nabokov, the Novelist’s Son and Literary Executor|Brian Boyd|May 10, 2012|DAILY BEAST

The letter had lain at his Club three days, it was dated Switzerland and the postmark was Montreux.
The Wave|Algernon Blackwood
I met with an accident while out walking on the hill above Montreux, and lay out till nightfall.
The Pagan's Cup|Fergus Hume
Soon they were chatting of places, and somehow it came out of Denry that he was going to Montreux.
The Card, A Story Of Adventure In The Five Towns|Arnold Bennett
A little below that was the terminal station of the funicular railway from Montreux.
The Card, A Story Of Adventure In The Five Towns|Arnold Bennett
The railway ran down the sheer of the mountain into the roofs of Montreux, like a wire.
The Card, A Story Of Adventure In The Five Towns|Arnold Bennett

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