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proper noun

Berlin n. (Geography) The capital city of Germany. Population (2000) = 3,471,418.

noun

Berlin n.

A four-wheeled carriage, having a sheltered seat behind the body and separate from it, invented in the 17th century, at Berlin.

Fine worsted for fancy-work; zephyr worsted; called also Berlin wool.

Berlin black, a black varnish, drying with almost a dead surface; used for coating the better kinds of ironware.

Berlin blue, Prussian blue.

Berlin green, a complex cyanide of iron, used as a green dye, and similar to Prussian blue.

Berlin iron, a very fusible variety of cast iron, from which figures and other delicate articles are manufactured. These are often stained or lacquered in imitation of bronze.

Berlin shop, a shop for the sale of worsted embroidery and the materials for such work.

Berlin work, worsted embroidery.

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Etymology of 'Berlin'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Berlin" Quotes from Famous Books

... Even after this accession of territory, the chiefs of the house of Hohenzollern hardly ranked with the Electors of Saxony and Bavaria. The soil of Brandenburg was for the most part sterile. Even round Berlin, the capital of the province, and round Potsdam, the favourite residence of the Margraves, the country was a desert. In some places, the deep sand could with difficulty be forced by assiduous tillage to yield thin crops of rye and oats. In other places, ...

— Critical and Historical Essays Volume 2 • Thomas Babington Macaulay

... Others were bankers, heads of business houses, literary men and women. There were also a few quiet folk with names that were historical. They all thought that war between France and England would be a world disaster, but were not very hopeful of averting it. She learnt that Carleton was in Berlin trying to secure possession of a well-known German daily that happened at the moment to be in low water. He was working for an alliance between Germany and England. In France, the Royalists had come to ...

— All Roads Lead to Calvary • Jerome K. Jerome

... ambulance. That was before I was a regular member of the corps—in fact, before the corps which operated at the siege of Paris had been properly formed. Dr. Sims, Dr. Tom Pratt, Frank Hayden and others, with three ambulance-wagons, were going to the front: we heard a great deal of "a Berlin!" in the streets in those days. I came down this way to the Palais d'Industrie to see them off, and when I did see the American ladies raising the colors to march through the crowd, I couldn't help taking part in the procession. So I put on the brassard of Geneva—a red cross on a white band ...

— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XII, No. 28. July, 1873. • Various

... war by France against Germany was not made until the 15th of July, 1870, reaching Berlin some four days later; but, for some weeks prior to that date, there is not the slightest doubt that both sides were busily engaged in mobilising their respective armies and making extensive preparations for a struggle ...

— Fritz and Eric - The Brother Crusoes • John Conroy Hutcheson

... Berlin. I grow dizzy even now when I think of our whirling through that city. It seemed we were going faster and faster all the time, but it was only the whirl of trains passing in opposite directions and close to us that made ...

— From Plotzk to Boston • Mary Antin

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