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  • proper noun A river in Schleswig-Holstein in northern Germany.

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Examples

  • I was, which was distinguished by the name of 'Trave', on account of the enormous beam which deprived me of light.

    Memoirs of Casanova — Volume 10: under the Leads Giacomo Casanova 1761

  • I was, which was distinguished by the name of 'Trave', on account of the enormous beam which deprived me of light.

    The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova Giacomo Casanova 1761

  • In The King of Diamonds, Inspector Trave, my policeman in The Inheritance, must once again search back into the wartime past, this time in Belgium, to find out who is responsible for a double murder, while meanwhile Titus Osman, the king of the title, casts a spell over Trave's estranged wife and secures her engagement to marry him by placing a cutting of the world-famous Regency Diamond on her finger.

    Simon Tolkien: The Story Behind My Novel, The King of Diamonds Simon Tolkien 2011

  • In The King of Diamonds, Inspector Trave, my policeman in The Inheritance, must once again search back into the wartime past, this time in Belgium, to find out who is responsible for a double murder, while meanwhile Titus Osman, the king of the title, casts a spell over Trave's estranged wife and secures her engagement to marry him by placing a cutting of the world-famous Regency Diamond on her finger.

    Simon Tolkien: The Story Behind My Novel, The King of Diamonds Simon Tolkien 2011

  • She elbowed Trave out of the way and leaned toward me.

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

  • She elbowed Trave out of the way and leaned toward me.

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

  • She elbowed Trave out of the way and leaned toward me.

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

  • Leni grew up in L-beck, in a row of kleinb'rger houses beside the Trave.

    Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

  • It was, however, certain that a landing of the Russians was expected at Stralsund, or at Travemtinde, the port of Lubeck, at the mouth of the little river Trave.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various

  • The steamship Trave of the North German Lloyd docked at its Hoboken pier at eight o'clock one morning in December.

    Princess Zara Ross Beeckman

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