Münchhausen

American  

[mynkh-hou-zuhn] / ˈmünxˌhaʊ zən /

noun

1. Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Baron von 1720–97, German soldier, adventurer, and teller of tales.

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Other Word Forms

• Munchausenism
  noun

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Münchhausen

Outside Son Abrines, the hill slopes upward, and a landscaped stone walkway leads to Son Boter, a 17th-century manor that was once a boarding house run by the Baroness von Münchhausen.

From New York Times ● Jul. 15, 2011

There were days when Sir John Mandeville and Baron von Münchhausen told tales and people swallowed them.

From Time Magazine Archive

Possibly he had to consult the taste of his public in introducing such a large ingredient of this buffoon element—taken from what I called the Münchhausen portion of the old legend.

From The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust' by Cotterill, H. B. (Henry Bernard)

Instructor in German, Columbia University Immermann first thought of writing a new Münchhausen in 1821, the year of his satirical comedy, The Princes of Syracuse, which contains the embryonic idea of this "history in arabesques."

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 07 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Various

Oswald, too, came to the Farm one day to settle an affair of honor with Münchhausen.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 07 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Various