Moselle

Borrowed from French Moselle, from Latin Mosella.

• IPA^(key): /məʊˈzɛl/
• Rhymes: -ɛl

Moselle

2. A left tributary of Rhine, flowing through the departments of Vosges, Meurthe-et-Moselle and Moselle in northeastern France, through Luxembourg, and through the states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland, Germany.
4. A department of Grand Est, France.

• Meurthe-et-Moselle
• Pagny-sur-Moselle

Moselle (countable and uncountable, plural Moselles)

1. A light white wine, made from Riesling grapes originating in the valley of this river.
   • 1790, James Boswell, edited by Danziger & Brady, Boswell: The Great Biographer, Yale, published 1989, page 28:

     I drank too much moselle, imagining it a mere diuretic.

From Latin Mosella.

• IPA^(key): /mɔ.zɛl/

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Moselle f

1. Moselle (a left tributary of Rhine, flowing through the departments of Vosges, Meurthe-et-Moselle and Moselle in northeastern France, through Luxembourg, and through the states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland, Germany)
2. Moselle (a department of Grand Est, France)

• Meurthe-et-Moselle