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Dresden

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Dres·den  (drzdn)
A city of east-central Germany on the Elbe River east-southeast of Leipzig. An industrial and cultural center, it was severely damaged in bombing raids during World War II. Its china industry was moved to Meissen in the early 18th century. Population: 505,000.
Dresden [ˈdrɛzdən]
n
(Placename) an industrial city in SE Germany, the capital of Saxony on the River Elbe: it was severely damaged in the Seven Years' War (1760); the baroque city was almost totally destroyed in World War II by Allied bombing (1945). Pop.: 477 700 (1999 est.)
adj
(Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Ceramics) relating to, designating, or made of Dresden china
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.Dresden - a city in southeastern Germany on the Elbe River; it was almost totally destroyed by British air raids in 1945
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
Dresden [ˈdrezdən]
A. N → Dresde m
B. CPD Dresden china N → loza f de Dresde
Dresden
n (also Dresden china) → ˜ Meißner Porzellan nt
Dresden [ˈdrɛzd/ən] n → Dresda
Dresden [ˈdrɛzd/ən] n → Dresda


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But I have been able to dwell in their charming out-land or no-land with the shepherds and shepherdesses and nymphs, satyrs, and fauns, of Tasso and Guarini, and I take the finest pleasure in their company, their Dresden china loves and sorrows, their airy raptures, their painless throes, their polite anguish, their tears not the least salt, but flowing as sweet as the purling streams of their enamelled meadows.
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He noticed that in the new contingent there were many young girls, and he remembered what a lady in Dresden had once said to him--that America was the country of the Madchen.
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I have been to Dresden, yet am completely in the dark as to what Dresden is like.
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