Venusberg

[ vee-nuhs-burg; German vey-noos-berk ]

noun

1. a mountain in central Germany in the caverns of which, according to medieval legend, Venus held court.

Venusberg

/ ˈveːnʊsbɛrk; ˈviːnəsˌbɜːɡ /

noun

1. a mountain in central Germany: contains caverns that, according to medieval legend, housed the palace of the goddess Venus

Example Sentences

Both tickets cost about the same; the ticket to Venusberg, in fact, cost three decicredits more.

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Never, never would she allure; never draw him to her; never build in her cathedral a Venusberg for him.

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An almost too vivacious rendering of the Venusberg music brought the scheme to a strepitous conclusion.

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A number of friends of the cause were to make it real and wrest German art from the Venusberg of the common theatre.

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This is the terrible Venusberg, inhabited, according to popular tradition, by a dangerous goddess.

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