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Black Forest

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Black Forest
A mountainous region of southwest Germany between the Rhine and Neckar rivers. It is a year-round resort area that is famous for its clock and toy industries.
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Noun1.Black ForestBlack Forest - a hilly forest region in southwestern Germany
Schwarzwald
Deutschland, FRG, Germany, Federal Republic of Germany - a republic in central Europe; split into East Germany and West Germany after World War II and reunited in 1990
Translations
Black Forest n the Black Forest → la Selva Negra
Black Forest n the Black Forest → la Forêt Noire
Black Forest n the Black Forest → der Schwarzwald
Black Forest n the Black Forest → la Foresta Nera


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When Harris and I were making a pedestrian tour through the Black Forest, we stopped at a little country inn for dinner one day; two young ladies and a young gentleman entered and sat down opposite us.
A Tramp Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
Castle of Wolfenbach, Clermont, Mysterious Warnings, Necromancer of the Black Forest, Midnight Bell, Orphan of the Rhine, and Horrid Mysteries.
Northanger Abbey by Austen, Jane View in context
Its cheerless hillocks were all but naked of vegetation, for a never very flourishing growth of heather had recently been burnt right down to the unkindly- looking earth, leaving a dwarf black forest of charred sticks very grim to the eye and heart; while the dull surface of a small lifeless-looking lake added the final touch to the Dead-Sea mournfulness of the prospect.
The Quest of the Golden Girl by le Gallienne, Richard View in context
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