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Sleswick

American  
[sles-wik] / ˈslɛs wɪk /

noun

  1. Schleswig.


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The American student needs not to go to the "prim little townships of Sleswick" for illustrations of the law of continuity and development.

From The Frontier in American History by Turner, Frederick Jackson

The duke was reported to be lying sick in Sleswick, to the great grief of his young wife.

From The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance by Ingemann, Bernhard Severin

It is really what its name denotes, a triangle of irregular shape, formed by the Slie, the firth of Flensborg, and a line drawn from Flensborg to Sleswick.

From A Handbook of the English Language by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)

So that there are characteristics, both of dress and figure, which sufficiently distinguish the North-Frisian of Sleswick from the Dane on one side and the German on the other.

From The Ethnology of the British Islands by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)

In the eighth century there was, and at the present moment there is, a portion of the duchy of Sleswick called Anglen or the corner.

From A Handbook of the English Language by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)

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