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Neufchatel   Listen
noun
Neufchatel  n.  A kind of soft sweet-milk cheese; so called from Neufchâtel-en-Bray in France.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Neufchatel" Quotes from Famous Books



... union with France which had been so often discussed. Hanover was to be the price of it. Prussia was uneasy, frightened, divided in her councils, but she accepted; the Marquisate of Anspach, the Principality of Neufchatel, and the Duchy of Cleves were ceded to France, and the treaty was signed at Schoenbrunn on the 15th December, 1805. Prussia recognized all the conquests of Napoleon; the two sovereigns ...
— Worlds Best Histories - France Vol 7 • M. Guizot and Madame Guizot De Witt

... Proceeding to Neufchatel and Aumale, he soon found himself in the neighbourhood of the Leaguers, and it was not long before skirmishing began. At this time, on a memorable occasion, Henry, forgetting as usual, in his eagerness for the joys of the combat that he was not a young captain of cavalry with his spurs ...
— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley

... Brenetz, in the Canton of Neufchatel, Switzerland, named Guinaud, having directed his attention to the manufacture of flint glass towards the close of last century, at length succeeded, after persevering efforts, in producing masses of that substance perfectly ...
— Men of Invention and Industry • Samuel Smiles

... Blanche, Dowager-Queen of France, had laid her hand by way of justice upon Jehan le Bourgeois of Neufchatel in spite of the fact that his murder had been pardoned by the canons' Privilege de St. Romain; and from this case, and the following one in 1391, it appears that the pardon given to a prisoner involved that (apart from "civil" restitutions) ...
— The Story of Rouen • Sir Theodore Andrea Cook

... Marischal in Scotland, is he not?—who has been governor for some years at Neufchatel, is with the king at Breslau, at present. They say the king was greatly affected at the loss of the marshal who, since Schwerin's death, has ...
— With Frederick the Great - A Story of the Seven Years' War • G. A. Henty



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