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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. A city of east-central Germany south-southwest of Leipzig. Founded by Slavs in the 12th century, it passed to Bohemia in 1327 and to Saxony in 1466 and became a textile-milling center in the 15th century. Population: 68,400.

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  • “He could not recall Plauen having talked much about the modern Empire, except to label it a weakling, lost in fantasies of its past, battling for life in a hostile age, constantly stalked by hostile intrigues.”

    The Swordbearer

  • “And with the Cold War still going full tilt, every kid with a sense of self in Pinsk, Plauen and Plovdiv hungered to listen to rock music and wanted a copy of Rolling Stone.”

    The Huffington Post: Last Tango in Davos ... Globalism and Social Media Hook Up

  • “Schlosser visits a McDonald's in Plauen, a grim town in what used to be East Germany, and concedes that it's "the nicest, cleanest, brightest place" around.”

    Newsweek: Hold The French Fries

  • “In Plauen, in Germany's southeast, a 28-year-old woman is in custody for allegedly killing her three babies.”

    CNN Transcript Dec 6, 2007

  • “Yet Plauen kept returning, as if there were a point he and Anyeck kept missing.”

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  • Plauen and the Safire attacked the Toal with the puny spells at their command.”

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  • “Gathrid saw his father turn to Plauen, heard him tell the Brother that now was the time to do something.”

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  • Plauen slammed his book back into its protective case.”

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  • “Poor dead Plauen, whose candle had been extinguished by the Mindak's whirlwind.”

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  • “Then Plauen was behind them, smiling a distant smile.”

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