Vierwaldstättersee

/ fiːrˈvaltʃtɛtərˌzeː /

noun

1. the German name for (Lake) Lucerne

Example Sentences

Lake Lucerne — the Vierwaldstättersee, the Four Forested-­Cantons Lake — is the most mysterious of them all, a fjordlike lake, full of fog and silhouettes, inlets and outcroppings and an extremely complicated coastline that spreads, as the name says, across four cantons.

From New York Times

What has my existence been since that day on the Quai by the Vierwaldstattersee?—Je ne peux rien faire!—To the world I am dead.—There is perhaps no future for me because I have learned to love and have not learned to be loved.”

From Project Gutenberg

It is for that that I love the Vierwaldstattersee.”

From Project Gutenberg

But the cry at his heart for the Vierwaldstattersee and the Schweizerhof became of a strength beyond resisting, and so he turned his back upon the Jungfrau and his face towards the Rigi, and slept beneath the mist-wreaths of Mount Pilatus that very night.

From Project Gutenberg