Low Countries

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Low Countries

A region of northwest Europe comprising Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg.

Low Countries

pl n

(Placename) the lowland region of W Europe, on the North Sea: consists of Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands

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Low Countries - the lowland region of western Europe on the North Sea: Belgium and Luxembourg and the Netherlands

Europe - the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use `Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles

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Low Countries n the Low Countries → i Paesi Bassi

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The united provinces of the Low Countries, in their government, excel; for where there is an equality, the consultations are more indifferent, and the payments and tributes, more cheerful.

The Essays by Bacon, Sir Francis View in context

Some of them, indeed, by their services in the Low Countries and on other fields of European warfare, had fairly won their title to assume the name and pomp of soldiership.

The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context

They never overtook the chimerical friend, yet Andrea frequently inquired of people on foot whom he passed and at the inns which were not yet closed, for a green cabriolet and bay horse; and as there are a great many cabriolets to be seen on the road to the Low Countries, and as nine-tenths of them are green, the inquiries increased at every step.

The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas, Alexandre View in context

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