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Aarau

American  
[ahr-ou] / ˈɑr aʊ /

noun

  1. a town in and capital of Aargau, in N Switzerland.


Aarau British  
/ ˈaːrau /

noun

  1. a town in N Switzerland, capital of Aargau canton: capital of the Helvetic Republic from 1798 to 1803. Pop: 15 470 (2000)

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He stored them in the cavernous depot he had built under his castle at Brestenberg, near the Swiss city of Aarau.

From New York Times • Feb. 7, 2023

Stepping in close, I found a few little black marks left in the soft metal by the compressed sand in which the cube had been molded in Aarau, Switzerland.

From New York Times • Feb. 2, 2022

Last summer, while attending the Lucerne Festival, I paid a visit to Frey in Aarau and spoke to him about his life and music.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 29, 2019

Until a few years ago, he had a day job teaching clarinet to children at the Aarau Music School.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 29, 2019

Many were the goblets emptied By the trumpeters from Frickthal, And from Solothurn and Aarau, But the most capacious goblet Was drank out by my brave Rassmann.

From The Trumpeter of Säkkingen A Song from the Upper Rhine. by Scheffel, Joseph Victor von