Viennese
Americanadjective
noun
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Viennese
plural
adjective
noun
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Dudamel opened with a Latinized version of Strauss’ “Tritsch-Tratsch Polka,” with which he once astonished the Viennese at their traditional New Year’s concert, and repeated Romero’s “Fuga.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
His father, Percy, was a Jewish-British trader; his mother, Nelly, was the daughter of middle-class Viennese Jews.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
My stomach was in knots as I pictured myself clad in a lemon chiffon dress looking like a dollop of meringue, doing the Viennese waltz — something resembling a Centrum Silver commercial.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
He mentioned another guy, who is now in my prologue, Georg Ritter von Schönerer, a Viennese aristocrat who was inspirational to Hitler at a given moment in Hitler’s youth.
From Slate ● Mar. 2, 2026
It seemed the entire chorus of The Nutcracker would hum a selection of Viennese waltzes and quadrilles and gallops.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
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