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Low Countries
plural noun
- the lowland region near the North Sea, forming the lower basin of the Rhine, Meuse, and Scheldt rivers, divided in the Middle Ages into numerous small states: corresponding to modern Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands.
Low Countries
plural noun
- the lowland region of W Europe, on the North Sea: consists of Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands
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He was the primary architect of the brilliant 1940 invasion of France and the Low Countries.
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Bigyns, Beguines; these were members of certain lay sisterhoods in the Low Countries, from the twelfth century onwards.
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Spain invited him to return to the Low Countries, and embark in some of her maritime towns.
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Mr. Grattan, too, has taken all the Low Countries to himself, and the literature of their life belongs to him.
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Persecution failed to check the triumph of the new opinions in the Low Countries.
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She offered Philip to fly with her boy to the Low Countries and to serve as a pretender in his hands.
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