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Meanings of rhenish in English
Any of several white wines from the Rhine River valley in Germany (`hock' is British usage)
The regional variety of German spoken in the Rhineland in Germany, which is approximately the former Prussian Rhine Province, or the West half of todays federal state North Rhine-Westphalia plus the North half of todays federal state Rhinland-Palatinate.
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1
Wine made of raisins of the sun is always of the colour of rhenish, which is almost white.
2
Whilst one party wheel briskly away in the valz, another amuse themselves in a corner with cold meat and rhenish.
3
Thus the Centre Party is in the ascendant in the Rhenish Provinces.
4
The letter bore the postmark of a city in the Rhenish Palatinate.
5
The third prize was to be two tuns of good Rhenish wine.
6
Both she and it reached the Rhenish spa by some circuitous route.
7
To Whitehall, and thence to the Rhenish wine-house, where I met Mons.
8
Go bring me a pint of Rhenish wine from the Saint George.
9
We will give his droll account of his entrance into Rhenish Prussia.
10
He considered a moment longer, and took a deep draught of Rhenish.
11
Thence we rode through Rhenish Prussia on, on, until we reached Cologne.
12
The foaming flagons of lager and the green-necked bottles of Rhenish circulated merrily.
13
The Rhenish provinces, Alsatia, and the Palatinate, must be transformed into a waste.
14
Sometimes to the Rhenish House, sometimes to Pontack's in Abchurch Lane.
15
Do you really think that I expect to eat Rhenish cherries at midsummer.
16
Reubens would have sipped a few drops of Rhenish from a Venetian glass.