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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who admires Germany, its people, and its culture.
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- noun Someone who admires
Germany , its culture, cuisine, history or people.
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Examples
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An enthusiastic Germanophile who often dressed in Lederhosen, he made frequent pilgrimages to Bayreuth, and his archive abounds with Wagnerian pianola rolls, librettos and programs.
Glyndebourne's Epic Adventure Guy Chazan 2011
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Are 'ardent Francophile' and 'ardent Germanophile' Private Eye-type euphemisms?
The Situation of the Classical Roman Rite in Ireland, two years after Summorum Pontificum 2009
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Winifred, an English girl, brought up in an orphanage in East Grinstead, married at the age of eighteen to the son of Germany's most controversial genius, is a passionate Germanophile, a Wagnerian dreamer, a Teutonic patriot.
Summer reading... Jessica 2007
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Winifred, an English girl, brought up in an orphanage in East Grinstead, married at the age of eighteen to the son of Germany's most controversial genius, is a passionate Germanophile, a Wagnerian dreamer, a Teutonic patriot.
Archive 2007-08-01 Jessica 2007
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Though he was an Englishman, Legge was a Germanophile who built EMI up by signing a number of German artists who were being semi-boycotted by other companies after the war: Schwarzkopf, Herbert Von Karajan, and William Furtwangler among others.
Elizabeth Schwarzkopf Jaime J. Weinman 2006
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Though he was an Englishman, Legge was a Germanophile who built EMI up by signing a number of German artists who were being semi-boycotted by other companies after the war: Schwarzkopf, Herbert Von Karajan, and William Furtwangler among others.
Archive 2006-08-01 Jaime J. Weinman 2006
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"An Anglo-Saxon is already half a Saxon" was one Germanophile saying.
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Since he was only a spectator, everything had the inevitable effect of making him Germanophile because, though not really French, he lived in France.
Time Regained 2003
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Germanophile and other avowals, people in his company such as
Time Regained 2003
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Finally M. de Charlus had a still further reason for being the Germanophile he was.
Time Regained 2003
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