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Tilsit

[ til-zit, -sit ]

noun

  1. former name of Sovetsk.
  2. a semihard, light yellow cheese made from whole milk, similar in flavor to mild Limburger.


Tilsit

/ ˈtɪlzɪt /

noun

  1. the former name (until 1945) of Sovetsk
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

She returned at once to Tilsit, her eyes swollen with weeping; but she appeared in a stately dress, and with a smile on her lips.

To Talleyrand she said, with fine sarcasm, that only two persons regretted her having come to Tilsit—he and she.

By such hitherto unknown simplicity and address diplomacy at Tilsit was rendered most expeditious.

The diplomatic intrigues at St. Petersburg were intensely amusing after the peace of Tilsit.

Napoleon had opened to him at Tilsit a dazzling vista of territorial aggrandizement.

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