Rhenish
Americanadjective
noun
adjective
noun
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of Rhenish
1325–75; < Latin Rhēn ( us ) Rhine + -ish 1; replacing Middle English Rhinisch < Old High German
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
With an impressive endowment fund of 76,000 Rhenish guilders, he built a little walled city within the city: six streets containing, in all, 53 double-story houses in neat rows.
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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