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Wels

British  
/ vɛls /

noun

  1. an industrial city in N central Austria, in Upper Austria. Pop: 56 478 (2002)

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His name at birth in Linz, Austria, was Franz Leopold Maria Möst, and he switched it in 1985 to Welser-Möst in honor of Wels, a nearby city he grew up in.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 18, 2024

At its height, tourists flocked to what Wels describes as the “wild woodland” in Upstate New York, with orchards, livestock, “whizzing mills” and women with “queer cropped hair and shamelessly short skirts.”

From Washington Post • Feb. 2, 2023

As an alternative, some theorists suggest that Nessie's witnesses have actually spotted a wayward sturgeon or an introduced Wels catfish.

From National Geographic • May 23, 2018

But he still does a few noodling segments for other outdoor television productions each year and recently went to Spain to noodle for giant Wels catfish.

From Washington Times • Jun. 29, 2015

If you happind to com acrost any Traks of hers, me bein' away, you can send the sam to me in Care of Wels Farko & Co.,

From Gabriel Conroy by Harte, Bert