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- proper noun Lorraine, a French region rich in iron-ore deposits.
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- noun an eastern French region rich in iron-ore deposits
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A nephew of Otto Habsburg, the eldest son of Austria's last emperor, Ulrich Habsburg -- he only uses the name Lothringen when signing documents -- says the Austrian constitution does not afford equal rights to all citizens, ahead of presidential elections on April 25.
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A nephew of Otto Habsburg, the eldest son of Austria's last emperor, Ulrich Habsburg - he only uses the name Lothringen when signing documents - says the Austrian constitution does not afford equal rights to all citizens, ahead of presidential elections on April 25.
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Alsace henceforth must be written Elsass, and the devastated province called Lothringen was never again to be written Lorraine.
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He supported the expansion of the Prussian franchise and greater autonomy for Elsass-Lothringen (Alsace-Lorraine).
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However, the majority of the arriving soldiers were young men who had just completed their basic training with the Panzer Training and Replacement Regiment in Bitsch, Lothringen.
Panzer Aces Kurowski, Franz 1992
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It further developed that Mr. Gunterson had at last, in the Elsass-Lothringen, found almost what he had always been seeking; his company gave him an entirely free hand, -- a highly desirable thing for an underwriting manager, -- and he did not know whether he should ever care about looking for anything else.
White Ashes Alden Charles Noble
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Elsass-Lothringen, but in the next breath, recalling a few recent preliminary tremors unpleasantly suggestive of other catastrophes through which he had passed, and not to overlook a link in his entangling chain, he stated that after all, though, he was an American, and intimated that as such he sometimes felt he would a little rather devote himself to the interests of an American underwriting institution.
White Ashes Alden Charles Noble
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The “Briefe auf einer Reise aus Lothringen” has even less connection; it shares only in the increase of interest in personal accounts of travel.
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[17] The French name Lorraine and the German name Lothringen are both derived from the Latin title of Lothair's kingdom -- _Lotharii regnum_.
Early European History Hutton Webster
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Elsass-Lothringen on a loss ratio so surprisingly satisfactory that he himself was absolutely at a loss to explain it.
White Ashes Alden Charles Noble
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