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Etymologies
- From the town of Homburg, Germany, where it was first worn. (Wiktionary)
- After (Bad) Homburg . (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Hollidaysburg, Pa., died Mar. 27 in Homburg, Germany, of a non-combat related illness.”
“Spc. Joshua M. Neusche, 20, of Montreal, Mo., died July 12 in Homburg”
“• Army Sgt. Curtis J. Forshey, 22, Hollidaysburg, Pa.; died in Homburg, Germany, of a non-combat related illness; assigned to the 129th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, 101st Sustainment Brigade, 101st Airborne Division, Fort Campbell, Ky.”
“The widowed Empress Frederick is either at her lovely castle of Kronberg, near Homburg, which is stocked from garret to cellar with those art treasures of which she is one of the finest connaisseuses in Europe, or else is traveling about in Italy,”
“CMQ.UN-T, formerly known as Homburg Canada REIT, at about $838.2-million, including the stake Cominar already owns.”
“His attire consisted of much worn brown trousers and a loose white shirt kept in place by a red belt, -- his shirt sleeves were rolled up to the elbow, displaying thin brown muscular arms, expressive of energy, and he wore a battered brown hat which might once have been of the so-called "Homburg" shape, but which now resembled nothing ever seen in the way of ordinary head-gear.”
“Homburg" is much more grandiose than the stripped down original.”
“( "Homburg" or the "Company") (TSX: HII. A & HII. B and”
“The exhibition—organized by Philadelphia Museum curators Joseph J. Rishel and Jennifer A. Thompson, in collaboration with Anabelle Kienle, a curator at the National Gallery of Canada, and Cornelia Homburg, a Van Gogh scholar—opens with two small rooms of still lifes, most of them luscious pictures, although many have little to do with the theme of the show.”
“The other account gives the provenance of the tuxedo to fellow Tuxedo Park resident James Brown Potter, who brought a Homburg jacket made at Henry Poole & Co. home from a trip to England in 1886.”
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