Münchhausen

American  

[mynkh-hou-zuhn] / ˈmünxˌhaʊ zən /

noun

1. Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Baron von 1720–97, German soldier, adventurer, and teller of tales.

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Other Word Forms

• Munchausenism noun

Example Sentences

Outside Son Abrines, the hill slopes upward, and a landscaped stone walkway leads to Son Boter, a 17th-century manor that was once a boarding house run by the Baroness von Münchhausen.

From New York Times • Jul. 15, 2011

There were days when Sir John Mandeville and Baron von Münchhausen told tales and people swallowed them.

From Time Magazine Archive

Münchhausen, the notorious liar, is a genuine Rococo caricature in the Pigtail age.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 08 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Various

Not so my host, the Captain Sigismund von Münchhausen, who suddenly snapped together the stethoscope through which he had been gazing and rapped out a monosyllabic order down the speaking tube at his right hand.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. CL, April 26, 1916 by Various

"Introduce him," commanded Napoleon, "and in the mean time, sir, explain to me," he said to M. de Münchhausen, "—to me who is the Duke of Brunswick."

From Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia by Jordan, F.