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Haarlem

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Haar·lem  (härlm)
A city of western Netherlands near the North Sea west of Amsterdam. Chartered in 1245, it is an industrial city best known as a flower-growing center and distribution point for bulbs, especially tulips. Population: 147,000.
Haarlem (Dutch) [ˈhaːrlɛm]
n
(Placename) a city in the W Netherlands, capital of North Holland province. Pop.: 148 262 (1999 est.)


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Indeed; he knew better than any one else at Haarlem or Leyden -- the two towns which boast the best soil and the most congenial climate -- how to vary the colours, to modify the shape, and to produce new species.
The Black Tulip by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
Seeing all these colonnades of bone so methodically ranged about, would you not think you were inside the great Haarlem organ, and gazing upon its thousand pipes?
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
In the chamber lighted by this window was a square table, covered with an old large-flowered Haarlem tapestry; in the center of this table was a long-necked stone bottle, in which were irises and lilies of the valley; at each end of this table was a young girl.
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