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- proper noun a municipality in
Oppland ,Norway
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Examples
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Askeladden the Ash Lad, a Norwegian fairy tale character, stars in an ad for Dovre underwear.
Magical underwear 2010
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From Mount Betty there are several specimens of white granite, with dark and light mica; it has a great resemblance to the white granites from Sogn, the Dovre district, and Nordland, in Norway.
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That Memnon, it afterwards crossed my mind, was like the Old Men of the Dovre, so called, just as he sat there, stiff and stark, planted on end on the stumps of pillars. —
Peer Gynt 2008
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We drove E6 across Dovre from Trondheim to Skien - very good timing: on Thursday night parts of the road was closed due to land slides and holes in the road after the heavy rain.
Wedding weekend in Skien magnio 2008
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That Memnon, it afterwards crossed my mind, was like the Old Men of the Dovre, so called, just as he sat there, stiff and stark, planted on end on the stumps of pillars. —
Peer Gynt 2008
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From Mount Betty there are several specimens of white granite, with dark and light mica; it has a great resemblance to the white granites from Sogn, the Dovre district, and Nordland, in Norway.
The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912 2003
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The aged Mountain Elf of Norway, who lives in the old Dovre-field, and possesses many craggy castles, and a gold-mine too, which is a better thing than one imagines, is coming here with his two sons; and they are to choose themselves wives.
The Elfin Mound 1909
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From Mount Betty there are several specimens of white granite, with dark and light mica; it has a great resemblance to the white granites from Sogn, the Dovre district, and Nordland, in Norway.
The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the "Fram," 1910-1912 — Volume 2 Roald Amundsen 1900
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From Mount Betty there are several specimens of white granite, with dark and light mica; it has a great resemblance to the white granites from Sogn, the Dovre district, and Nordland, in Norway.
The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian Antarctic expedition in the "Fram," 1910-12 — Volume 1 and Volume 2 Roald Amundsen 1900
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The messengers found him at the foot of the Dovre-Fjeld Mountains between Norway and Sweden, and he joyfully returned with them, rousing the people as he went, till at last he had got together a force that far outnumbered the army which was sent to meet it.
The Red True Story Book Andrew Lang 1900
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