Rhenish
- adjective
- /ˈrɛnɪʃ/
:
rhenano
- The Rhenish wine served at the dinner was praised for its rich flavor and distinctive aroma.
Examples
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Visitors to the region often enjoy traditional Rhenish cuisine paired with local wines.
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If one reads through Schnaase's pages, one soon observes that while he keeps the word 'transition', in reality he sees the Rhenish monuments not as transitional but as creations of an autonomous regional style that leads not from Romanesque to Gothic but has aesthetic value in itself.
Academic text (1998) -
Moreover, wealthy Hanoverian women who married Nassauer men chose the Rhenish Franconian scarf.
Academic text (1990) -
He finds all sorts of features in the character of the Rhenish population and Rhenish landscape, which explain to him the decorative exuberance and the picturesque quality of the Rhenish transitional style.
Academic text (1998) -
Although such an escape has not been ventured for St-Eustache, Willibald Sauerlander has recently attempted to do so for a group of medieval Rhenish churches that, since the early nineteenth century, have been seen as transitionally situated between the Romanesque and Gothic.
Academic text (1998) -
She admired the intricate designs typical of Rhenish pottery displayed in the museum.
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Morphology
Etymology
Rhenish comes from the name of the Rhine river and originally meant 'from the Rhine'. So calling a place, dish, or person Rhenish means they come from the Rhine region, and the word is often used for the area's wines and culture.
