Moselle

English

Etymology

From French Moselle, from Latin Mosella.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /məʊˈzɛl/

Proper noun

Moselle

  1. A river flowing from France into the Rhine at Koblenz (western Germany).
  2. One of the départements in Grand Est, France.

Translations

Noun

Moselle (countable and uncountable, plural Moselles)

  1. A light white wine, made from Riesling grapes originating in the valley of this river.
    • 1790, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer, Yale 1989, p. 28:
      I drank too much moselle, imagining it a mere diuretic.

French

Etymology

From Latin Mosella.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɔ.zɛl/
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Proper noun

Moselle f

  1. Moselle (a left tributary of Rhine, in northeastern France)
  2. Moselle (a department of Grand Est, France)

Derived terms

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