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- proper noun A
canton in North-EastSwitzerland - noun A Swiss
cheese , made from cow's milk, that has many small holes
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Examples
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And in the Swiss canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden, every male voter dons his ancestral foil to turn out for elections.
The Sword's Timeless Appeal Lennox Morrison 2011
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Yet in one Swiss canton – Appenzell Inner-Rhodes – men continued to bar women from local elections until 1990.
Swiss Women Claim Majority Seats In Cabinet For First Time 2010
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But when the men of Appenzell Innerrhoden gave signs that they would still not accept what was long overdue some women filed suit for their right to vote and they succeeded.
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The men of Appenzell Ausserrhoden thought it might be better to change their laws themselves and they did so in 1989.
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In Appenzell, in what is now Switzerland, peasants used to deviously construct their own “houses” from free, local timber — then dismantle and sell them on quickly before building another one.
Thatched barns and stave churches: the possibilities of Anglo-Saxon timber architecture Carla 2009
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Melchior Looser, head of the justice department of Switzerland's Appenzell Innerrhoden canton, which was besieged by naked German hikers last summer and moved to ban nude walking "All nations have found themselves in the same boat."
Perspectives 2009
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The nonconformist approach may be inspired by Akris's location far from the hubs of fashion in St. Gallen, Switzerland, on the border of the bucolic Appenzell region.
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And Appenzell is not only the homeland of the worldbeater cheese, but it is the birthplace of my wife.
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Appenzell is the region in Switzerland from which the cheese originates.
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Appenzell is the region in Switzerland from which the cheese originates.
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