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- proper noun Alternative spelling of
Tyrol .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a picturesque mountainous province of western Austria and northern Italy
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Examples
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Suffering from a lung infection, she moved to Merran in Tirol to recover. 69 As her publication record indicates, that interruption cost her more than a year of active work although she actually returned to the institute in the spring of 1926.
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'Chiroru' is actually Tirol, which is a region in the Alps.
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The Tirol did not tolerate anything that savoured of the scandalous; the Tirol was a respectable house; the Tirol was ever careful, always rigid in the protection of its good name; and so on and so forth at great length and with great precision.
The Husbands of Edith George Barr McCutcheon 1897
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Centre of the villageThe Scottish Bike Show, Glasgow, Sat & SunBMX stunts, an Austrian Tirol forest indoor track, Dr Bike's service centre and the chance to learn how do tricks and bounce on mountain bikes at Scotland's first ever bike show.
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Gregor Pircher, 41, drove 160 miles from his home in south Tirol, Italy, to get a glimpse of Benedict, even though he disagrees with him on some issues.
USATODAY.com - Pope Benedict XVI begins homecoming visit to his native Bavaria 2006
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The homeland of the Schuhplattler dance is Tirol, a region in Austria.
dailycomic Diary Entry dailycomic 2008
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In this case, all EU citizens, including Austrians, were banned from buying or building new holiday homes in Tirol, an option which would hardly assist the Irish.
A cautionary tale Richard 2007
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Prior to its accession to the EU, foreigners had been prohibited from buying homes in the western region Tirol unless it was their main residence.
A cautionary tale Richard 2007
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Prior to its accession to the EU, foreigners had been prohibited from buying homes in the western region Tirol unless it was their main residence.
Archive 2007-10-01 Richard 2007
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The honor of rediscovering the “Nibelungenlied” and of restoring it to the world of literature belongs to a young physician by the name of J.H. Obereit, who found the manuscript C at the castle of Hohenems in the Tirol on June 29, 1755; but the scientific study of the poem begins with Karl Lachmann, one of the keenest philological critics that Germany has ever produced.
The Nibelungenlied 2007
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