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n. - Any of several white wines from the Rhine River valley in Germany (`hock' is British usage) adj. - Of or relating to the Rhine River and the lands adjacent to it.

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  • Rhenish wines tend to be sweet
  • Symphony No. 3 in E flat Major "Rhenish" - our bi-polar Renaissance man was all happy when he wrote this one.
  • Goeschen took the Thalia (dropping the 'Rhenish'),
  • Robert Schumann: Symphony #3 in E flat "Rhenish" (Cleveland Orchestra)
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