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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A hilly region of western Germany west of the Rhine River. The barren area has limestone moors and crater lakes.

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  • proper noun Eifel

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Examples

  • I'll leave you with one final shot of the strip from the top of the (replica) Eifel Tower at the Paris Hotel:

    Back Home.... jpitta 2009

  • I'll leave you with one final shot of the strip from the top of the (replica) Eifel Tower at the Paris Hotel:

    Archive 2009-08-01 jpitta 2009

  • So we got in the car and drove back to the very hotel that I had stayed in the night after I had won the Tour – a big suite with a view of the Eifel Tower – and I could barely be in that room.

    Complete transcript: Paul Kimmage’s interview of Floyd Landis 2011

  • Built during the 1920s, this 12. 94-mile ribbon of pavement, which is known as the Ring, winds through the Eifel mountains with a dizzying combination of 33 left-hand turns, 40 right-handers and massive elevation changes.

    Honoring 'the King of the Ring' 2010

  • It's as impressive as the Eifel tower, as wide as the Grand Canyon and as poisonous as ... well, there's nothing to compare it with.

    Paul Robert: The Joy of Dirty Destinations 2010

  • The Eifel Tower park has been evacuated because of a bomb threat.

    Twitterverse links France burqa ban and Eiffel Tower bomb threat 2010

  • It's as impressive as the Eifel tower, as wide as the Grand Canyon and as poisonous as ... well, there's nothing to compare it with.

    Paul Robert: The Joy of Dirty Destinations 2010

  • Parisians even had a balloon rugby ball floating from the upper base of the Eifel Tower.

    World Cup Soccer - World Class Peace 2010

  • In September you and b will become contests on the Amazing Race, starting with in a kiss atop the Eifel Tower and culminating with a showdown with the Yeti on the snow-swept slopes of the Himalayas.

    Double Digits Brigindo 2009

  • Somewhere along the line, the government of France decided that the Eifel Tower is a giant work of national art that deserved some museum-like rights with only specific people photographing it.

    Proper attribution of images taken in virtual worlds Bettina Tizzy 2008

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