Moselle

Moselle

English

Etymology

From French Moselle, from Latin Mosella.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /məʊˈzɛl/

Proper noun

Moselle

1. A river flowing from France into the Rhine at Koblenz (western Germany).
2. One of the départements in Grand Est, France.

Translations

river

Bavarian: Mosl Catalan: Mosel·la f Dutch: Moezel (nl) f French: Moselle (fr) f German: Mosel (de) f Italian: Mosella f Low German: German Low German: Mosel Luxembourgish: Musel (lb) f Norwegian: Bokmål: Mosel Nynorsk: Mosel Occitan: Mosèla f Spanish: Mosela f

department

French: Moselle (fr) f Occitan: Mosèla f

Noun

Moselle (countable and uncountable, plural Moselles)

1. A light white wine, made from Riesling grapes originating in the valley of this river.
   • 1790, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer, Yale 1989, p. 28:

     I drank too much moselle, imagining it a mere diuretic.

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French

Etymology

From Latin Mosella.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɔ.zɛl/

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Proper noun

Moselle f

1. Moselle (a left tributary of Rhine, in northeastern France)
2. Moselle (a department of Grand Est, France)

Derived terms

• Meurthe-et-Moselle