Ehrenbreitstein

[ ey-ruhn-brahyt-shtahyn ]

noun

1. a fortress in Coblenz, Germany, built in the 12th century.

Example Sentences

Turner’s “Ehrenbreitstein,” a view of a hilltop fortress in Germany inspired by a passage in Byron’s “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage.”

From New York Times

Sotheby’s auction house says “Ehrenbreitstein” is one of the greatest works by the artist still in private hands.

From Washington Times

Sotheby’s auction house says “Ehrenbreitstein” is one of the greatest works by the artist still in private hands.

From Seattle Times

The Fortress of Ehrenbreitstein, which is properly the Citadel of Coblentz, stands on the other Side of the Rhine.

From Project Gutenberg

Junghuhn was a man fit for any emergency, as he had already shown on the banks of his native Rhine, when the very cells of Ehrenbreitstein, with which a chivalric adventure had made him acquainted in his youth, had for once been found too narrow to hold him.

From Project Gutenberg