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Westfalen

American  
[vest-fah-luhn] / vɛstˈfɑ lən /

noun

  1. German name of Westphalia.


Westfalen British  
/ vɛstˈfaːlən /

noun

  1. the German name for Westphalia

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Nadal pulled out of this week’s grass-court event in Halle Westfalen, Germany.

From New York Times Jun. 13, 2013

Dere vas Strobbich aus Westfalen,     Who mofe all eart'ly ills Mit concentrirter Schinken juice,     Und Pumpernickel pills.

From The Breitmann Ballads by Leland, Charles Godfrey

Even as Sefton was watching the retreating warships, a column of water was thrown high in the air close to the port quarter of the German Dreadnought Westfalen.

From With Beatty off Jutland A Romance of the Great Sea Fight by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)

Amongst them were the Westfalen and Nassau, sister ships, whose scars received in the Jutland fight had been hurriedly patched up in the Wilhelmshaven dockyards.

From With Beatty off Jutland A Romance of the Great Sea Fight by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)

Lurching heavily, this time to starboard, the Westfalen was hidden from sight by a dense volume of steam and smoke from her engine-rooms.

From With Beatty off Jutland A Romance of the Great Sea Fight by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)

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