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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

... Frankenthal ware is marked with a C and T (for Charles Theodore) interlaced and crowned. On old Dresden china there are two crossed swords and the number of the order in gilt figures. Vincennes bears a hunting-horn; Vienna, a V closed and barred. You can tell Berlin by the two bars, Mayence by the wheel, and Sevres by the two crossed L's. The queen's porcelain is marked A for Antoinette, with a royal crown above it. In the eighteenth century, all the crowned heads of Europe had rival porcelain factories, and workmen were kidnaped. ...

— Poor Relations • Honore de Balzac

... Reflections on the Scandalous Acquittal. By a Shareholder.' It was a pamphlet, at that date forgotten, but which created much excitement at one time in the financial circles of Paris, of London and of Berlin, having been printed at once in three languages—in French, in German and in English—on the day after the suit of the 'Credit Austro Dalmate.' The dealer's chestnut-colored eyes twinkled with a truly ferocious joy as he held out the volume ...

— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet

... them had slipped away, leaving the French to sabre each other in the dark. The fall of my horse had brought me down, otherwise I might have escaped the shot which stunned me, and been at that hour galloping to Berlin. ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 341, March, 1844, Vol. 55 • Various

... glad and eager to accept them, as I said in my speech. I would be ashamed to use the knock-down and drag-out language; that is not the language of liberty, that is the language of braggadocio. For my part, I have no desire to march triumphantly into Berlin. If they oblige us to march triumphantly into Berlin, then we will do it if it takes twenty years. But the world will come to its senses some day, no matter how mad some parts of it may be now, and ...

— Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him • Joseph P. Tumulty

... stopped behind to bury the dog, the rest of us found our way into the communication trench. A signboard at the entrance, with the words "To Berlin," stated in trenchant words underneath, ...

— The Red Horizon • Patrick MacGill

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