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• Siegfried Line
  Siegfried Line

  noun

  a zone of fortifications in W Germany facing the Maginot Line, constructed in the years preceding World War II.
• Siegfried line
  Siegfried line

  noun

  the line of fortifications built by the Germans prior to and during World War II opposite the Maginot line in France

Siegfried Line

American  

noun

1. a zone of fortifications in W Germany facing the Maginot Line, constructed in the years preceding World War II.

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Siegfried line British  

noun

1. the line of fortifications built by the Germans prior to and during World War II opposite the Maginot line in France

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Example Sentences

The German World War I plan included a Siegfried Line, a Wotan Line, an Operation Alberich; the analogy between the Valkyries and air warfare “became a cliché almost overnight.”

From Slate • Oct. 17, 2020

Later, villagers hosted U.S. troops when the men were given rest-and-recuperation breaks from trying to breach the German frontier defenses, known as the Siegfried Line.

From Washington Post • May 24, 2015

Equally bored, German soldiers stared back from their Siegfried Line a few miles away.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012

Carr ran away to sea as a teenager, worked as a Hollywood bit player before moving to England, where he composed South of the Border and Hang Out the Washing on the Siegfried Line.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Germans had pulled back to a heavily fortified position known to the British as the Hindenburg Line and to the Germans as the Siegfried Line.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman