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
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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