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Thuringian

Thuringian \Thu*rin"gi*an\, a. Of or pertaining to Thuringia, a country in Germany, or its people. -- n. A native, or inhabitant of Thuringia.

Usage examples of "thuringian".

If the mark on my swaddling clothes meant anything at all, it might have been the initial letter of a name like Thrasamund or Theudebert, indicating that I could have been a Burgund child, a Frank, a Gepid, a Thuringian, a Suevian, a Vandal or any other of the nationalities of Germanic origin.

Elizabeth Buchholz, A Company, Thuringian Rifles, leaned on her elbows and peered at the estuary of the Trave River through the night-vision glasses.

As far as I can see, the two men have nothing in common except both being minor Thuringian nobility and heirs to small estates.

November 30 recounts that a telegram came for Hitler asking him to hurry to Berlin, but that he decided to let Schleicher wait while he conferred with his comrades at Weimar, where he was scheduled to open the campaign for the Thuringian elections.

Before Christianity came to reconstruct the folk-tales of the Thuringian peasants, the Horselberg was the home of Dame Holda, or Holle, and the horde of weird creatures which used to go tearing through the German forests on a wild rout in the Yuletide.

Faithful Eckhardt, a character that figures in many Thuringian legends, especially in tales of the Wild Hunt, warns each person in turn to beware of Venus.

In the summer of 1867 I was in Germany, and during a brief journey of idlesse and enjoyment came to the lovely little watering-place of Liebenstein, on the southern slope of the Thuringian Forest.

As their train mounted among the Thuringian uplands they were aware of a finer, cooler air through their open window.

Willy Ray Hudson, breezed into the office with his business partners in Thuringian Gardens.

Chilly, up here in these mountains even in springtime, but nothing compared to a Thuringian winter.

I said in my best imitation Thuringian accent-since the Thuringar train had arrived at the same time I had.

Julie had personally overseen the training of the Thuringian Rifles, the first company of true long-range snipers in history.

Mustered up not far away from the Thuringian Rifles, their horses already saddled, was a larger body of men.

Krak and his men had all been issued brand-new flintlocks with longer barrels and a tighter rifling twist, and they had now trained for months alongside the Thuringian Rifles.

Meanwhile Luther had gone back to Saxony, had preached on his way to the Benedictines of Hersfeld, and then disappeared in the Thuringian Forest.