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Schaumburg-Lippe

American  
[shoum-boork-lip-uh] / ˈʃaʊm bʊərkˈlɪp ə /

noun

  1. a former state in NW Germany.


Schaumburg-Lippe British  
/ ˈʃaumbʊrkˈlɪpə /

noun

  1. a former state of NW Germany, between Westphalia and Hanover: part of Lower Saxony since 1946

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But when presented to Victoria, eleven years after the death of her husband Prince Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe, Alexander Subkoff seemed personable, a gentleman, an "interesting" young man of 27.

From Time Magazine Archive

In 1927 he created an international scandal by marrying the Kaiser's sister, Princess Victoria of Schaumburg-Lippe, 61.

From Time Magazine Archive

There are 25 states, the largest, Prussia, with a population of over 40,000,000; the smallest, Schaumburg-Lippe, with a population of a little more than 46,000 and an area of 131 square miles.

From Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View by Collier, Price

The reigning Prince is, as you have perhaps forgotten, the present proprietor of one of your estates,—the Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe.

From Letters of Franz Liszt -- Volume 1 from Paris to Rome: Years of Travel as a Virtuoso by Bache, Constance

The Schaumburg-Lippe body-physician, Faust,75 in a work published in the year 1791, strongly recommended that boys should not wear breeches.

From The Sexual Life of the Child by Paul, Eden

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