Frisches Haff

[ frish-is hahf ]

noun

1. a lagoon in N Poland. 52 miles (84 km) long; 4–12 miles (6–19 km) wide.

Frisches Haff

/ ˈfrɪʃəs ˈhaf /

noun

1. the German name for Vistula

Example Sentences

Into the Haff flow the Nogat, the Elbing, the Passarge, the Pregel and the Frisching, from the last of which the name Frisches Haff probably arose.

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The Memel is silting up the Kurisches Haff, which, like the Frisches Haff, is separated from the open sea by a line of dunes comparable with those of the Landes in France.

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BRAUNSBERG, a town of Germany, in the kingdom of Prussia, 38 m. by rail S.W. of K�nigsberg, on the Passarge, 4 m. from its mouth in the Frisches Haff.

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In the ensuing year he was appointed canon of Frauenburg, the cathedral city of the Diocese of Ermland, situated on the shores of the Frisches Haff.

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Here the westerly winds have full play, and the coast is rimmed by a continuous line of dunes, which cut off the two great lagoons of the Frisches Haff and Kurisches Haff by sandspits or Nehrungen.

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