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Rhenish

American  
[ren-ish] / ˈrɛn ɪʃ /

adjective

  1. of the river Rhine or the regions bordering on it.


noun

  1. British. Rhine wine.

Rhenish British  
/ ˈrɛnɪʃ, ˈriː- /

adjective

  1. of or relating to the River Rhine or the lands adjacent to it, esp the Rhineland-Palatinate

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. another word for hock 2

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of Rhenish

1325–75; < Latin Rhēn ( us ) Rhine + -ish 1; replacing Middle English Rhinisch < Old High German


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In Mumbai and Shenzhen, Nairobi and Rio, Marx is surely more than just a staid Rhenish intellectual with no purchase on the present.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 26, 2013

Simon Rattle conducted the Vienna Philharmonic in this work, together with Webern's Six Pieces for Orchestra Op 6 and Schumann's Symphony No 3 "Rhenish", in Birmingham and London last week.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 23, 2012

By the last work in the concert, Schumann's "Rhenish", they were at ease, the playing taut and lean.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 23, 2012

Besides the Rhenish wine of tradition, good Italian wine in gargantuan quantities was brought to the Pope's cellars last week by pious Italian vintners, grateful for last year's record vintage of nearly 29 million barrels.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Supper, sir? Cold beef and the best bread in the county? A jug of ale or some Rhenish wine?”

From "The Midwife's Apprentice" by Karen Cushman

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