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Eifel

American  
[ahy-fuhl] / ˈaɪ fəl /

noun

  1. a hilly region in North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate states in W Germany.


Eifel British  
/ ˈaifəl, ˈaɪfəl /

noun

  1. a plateau region in W Germany, between the River Moselle and the Belgian frontier: quarrying

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In 2020, there was a safety-car period during the Eifel Grand Prix at the Nurburgring.

From BBC • Dec. 13, 2021

Sebastian Frenkel, who often visits the western Eifel region of Germany that has been devastated, initiated an online crowdfunding scheme to help.

From Reuters • Jul. 24, 2021

"The German language hardly knows words for the devastation that has been wrought," she said in front of the town hall in Adenau, in Germany's Eifel district, one of the areas hit hardest.

From Washington Post • Jul. 18, 2021

The weather service, a government agency, assigned its most extreme storm warning, code purple, to the Eifel and Mosel regions.

From New York Times • Jul. 16, 2021

Like the stadium, most were being clad with natural stone, all of it German—more limestone from Franconia, basalt from the Eifel hills, granite and marble from Silesia, travertine from Thuringia, porphyry from Saxony.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown