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proper noun

Berlin n. (Geography) The capital city of Germany. Population (2000) = 3,471,418.

noun

Berlin n.

A four-wheeled carriage, having a sheltered seat behind the body and separate from it, invented in the 17th century, at Berlin.

Fine worsted for fancy-work; zephyr worsted; called also Berlin wool.

Berlin black, a black varnish, drying with almost a dead surface; used for coating the better kinds of ironware.

Berlin blue, Prussian blue.

Berlin green, a complex cyanide of iron, used as a green dye, and similar to Prussian blue.

Berlin iron, a very fusible variety of cast iron, from which figures and other delicate articles are manufactured. These are often stained or lacquered in imitation of bronze.

Berlin shop, a shop for the sale of worsted embroidery and the materials for such work.

Berlin work, worsted embroidery.

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Etymology of 'Berlin'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... King of Prussia was only a revolutionary monarch. If we may believe Chateaubriand, "Frederick William's great crime, according to Bonaparte the Republican, was this, that he abandoned the cause of the kings. The negotiations of the Berlin court with the Directory indicated, Bonaparte used to say, a timid, selfish, undignified policy, which sacrificed his own position and the general monarchical interests to petty advantages. When he used to look at the new Prussia on ...

— The Happy Days of the Empress Marie Louise • Imbert De Saint-Amand

... heard him better than she heard most people, and laughed like a pleased child at the question. "I spent a winter in Berlin, when I was a young woman," said she. "I remember it clearly enough. There was a little shop in one of the streets—I forget just which—where they sold pictures of the emperor, in little carved frames. William the First, it was then, grandfather ...

— Mrs. Red Pepper • Grace S. Richmond

... has been, to a large degree, superseded by several excellent sorts, of which the Extra-Early Dwarf Erfurt was, doubtless the parent. Principal among these varieties are the Snowball, the Sea-Foam, Vick's Ideal, and Berlin Dwarf. All of these are early sorts and excellent strains. After testing them side by side, I find that the best strain of the Snowball is not excelled by either of them. Of the somewhat later ripening sorts, a variety which originated in this ...

— Cabbages and Cauliflowers: How to Grow Them • James John Howard Gregory

... Berlin" in the original text. In the authorised translation this was supplemented with "Tranfalgar Square, London". We have changed this to "Times Square, New York", as this is the most well known/identifiable location to English speakers in the present ...

— Relativity: The Special and General Theory • Albert Einstein

... of Latin authors all! Nor think your verses sterling, Though with a golden pen you scrawl, And scribble in a berlin: ...

— Poetical Works of Pope, Vol. II • Alexander Pope

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