swabian
Britishadjective
noun
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Herta Müller was born in 1953 in the Banat region of western Romania to a German-speaking Swabian family.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026
According to Dutkiewicz, the Swabian Jura is just one of several key areas where such symbols appear.
From Science Daily • Feb. 25, 2026
The 111th Regiment recruited men in the Baden region of the Swabian Alps, and nine soldiers have now been identified who died on 4 and 5 May 1917.
From BBC • Mar. 14, 2021
This analogy between households and governments makes mainstream economists splutter with irritation; as Stiglitz observes, when the Swabian housewife reduces her spending, her husband doesn’t lose his job.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 17, 2016
Then said the Swabian, "Let us now take hand And swear to follow evermore this quest Till death or life have set our hearts at rest."
From A Selection from the Poems of William Morris by Morris, William
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