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  • A city of southeast Germany north-northwest of Munich. First mentioned in 1050, it became a free imperial city in the 1200s and a center of the German cultural renaissance in the 1400s and 1500s. From 1933 to 1938 it was the site of annual Nazi party congresses. Largely destroyed in World War II, the city served as the venue for the Allied trials of war criminals (1945–1946).

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  • proper noun A city in Bavaria, Germany.

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  • noun a city in southeastern Germany; site of Allied trials of Nazi war criminals (1945-46)

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Examples

  • In closing this sketch, nothing can so delightfully summarize the beauty of the old town of Nuremberg and the character of its great artist as a part of Longfellow's poem, _Nuremberg_: [A]

    Great Artists, Vol 1. Raphael, Rubens, Murillo, and Durer Jennie Ellis Keysor

  • NUREMBERG SCHOOL: Half-way between the sentiment of Cologne and the realism of Prague stood the early school of Nuremberg, with no known painter at its head.

    A Text-Book of the History of Painting John Charles Van Dyke 1894

  • BENJAMIN FERENCZ, A CHIEF PROSECUTOR, NUREMBERG WAR CRIMES TRIAL: I would follow exactly the Nuremberg precedents.

    CNN Transcript Jun 30, 2004 2004

  • EWA7 (1999), named for a factory in Nuremberg, was inspired by the same Siemens residency, and further explored musical possibilities in "scrapes, squeaks, and bangs of metal, the ambient buzzes and whines of electric devices, and the imperfect rhythmic repeats of heavy machinery."

    Rodney Punt: Annie Gosfield in Concert -- The Industrial Age Goes Avant-Garde Rodney Punt 2010

  • EWA7 (1999), named for a factory in Nuremberg, was inspired by the same Siemens residency, and further explored musical possibilities in "scrapes, squeaks, and bangs of metal, the ambient buzzes and whines of electric devices, and the imperfect rhythmic repeats of heavy machinery."

    Rodney Punt: Annie Gosfield in Concert -- The Industrial Age Goes Avant-Garde Rodney Punt 2010

  • I only have a short connection in Nuremberg to catch my train to Regensburg, and my experience with connections less than 20 minutes has not been good.

    Derailed, and a Wonderful Bar-B-Q 2009

  • The northbounders starting in Nuremberg had no chance of finding out any details of what they were to do, until they got on the platform.

    Derailed, and a Wonderful Bar-B-Q 2009

  • EWA7 (1999), named for a factory in Nuremberg, was inspired by the same Siemens residency, and further explored musical possibilities in "scrapes, squeaks, and bangs of metal, the ambient buzzes and whines of electric devices, and the imperfect rhythmic repeats of heavy machinery."

    Rodney Punt: Annie Gosfield in Concert -- The Industrial Age Goes Avant-Garde Rodney Punt 2010

  • I will, however, be in Nuremberg on June 27th, so I'll be looking for you there!

    TTFN 2009

  • The train from Furth to Nuremberg is an eight minute trip, max.

    Derailed, and a Wonderful Bar-B-Q 2009

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