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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of northeast France on the Moselle River north of Nancy. Settled before Roman times, it prospered as a free imperial city after the 1100s and was annexed by France in 1552. The city was ruled by Germany from 1871 to 1918.
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- proper noun The capital city of the région of
Lorraine
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Examples
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A few averages I couldn't find in Metz appeared in Newer Knowledge of Milk and Other Fluid Dairy Products, rev. ed.,
Cheese and Lactose Steve Carper 2007
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A few averages I couldn't find in Metz appeared in Newer Knowledge of Milk and Other Fluid Dairy Products, rev. ed.,
Archive 2007-11-01 Steve Carper 2007
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Reprinted in Metz, La femme et l'enfant dans le droit canonique.
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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Although Llodra is on the team to play Croatia in Metz next weekend, Santoro has been dropped from the French team for the first time since 2000.
USATODAY.com - Notes: French team strip Bryans of doubles title hopes 2004
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Metz is currently carried in the presumptive status of Dead, Body Not Recovered.
Metz, James H. 1990
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Not a night passed in Metz without the beat of music upon the frosty air.
The Happy Foreigner 1920
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The King was right; Germany would never be secure so long as Strasburg was French; but can France ever be secure so long as Metz is German?
Bismarck and the Foundation of the German Empire Headlam, James W 1899
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She eloped with Lawrence to her parents’ home in Metz, a garrison town in Germany near the disputed border with France.
d.h. lawrence | we are transmitters « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008
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She eloped with Lawrence to her parents’ home in Metz, a garrison town in Germany near the disputed border with France.
March « 2008 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008
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What took place at the village, now takes place at Metz, that is all.
Essays on Political Economy Fr��d��ric Bastiat 1825
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