Viennese
Americanadjective
noun
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Viennese
plural
adjective
noun
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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
For Jutta Ambrositsch, a pioneering figure among the new wave of Viennese winemakers, "the major problem is insensitive and careless real estate development in the 'heurigen areas'".
From Barron's ● Jul. 26, 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
Opera’s costume shop, summon the spectacular opulence of this music-obsessed Viennese world.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2026
The Viennese carpeting was wet beneath the dripping radiators and the mirrors had been removed, leaving ghostly rectangles of plaster and ornamental screws.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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