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Sempach
[ German zem-pahkh ]
noun
- a village in central Switzerland: Austrians defeated by Swiss 1386.
Sempach
/ ˈzɛmpax /
noun
- a village in central Switzerland, in Lucerne canton on Lake Sempach : scene of the victory (1386) of the Swiss over the Hapsburgs
Example Sentences
He joked that he covered his eyes at a painting in the Swiss Guard’s headquarters of the 14th-century battles of Morgarten and Sempach, which helped bounce his family out of Switzerland.
The numbers, reported in this week's issue of Science, are "stunning," says Silke Bauer, an ecologist at the Swiss Ornithological Institute in Sempach.
“These long-term flights confirm what everybody suspected for quite some time now,” says Felix Liechti of the Swiss Ornithological Institute in Sempach.
And in another Swiss folly, a German truck driver trying to deliver cargo to a factory in the town of Sempach found himself up a tree — literally.
At the moment that is generally true, though according to Dr Leshem the Swiss Ornithological Institute in Sempach has developed a Doppler radar that can identify blips by species.
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