NOUN | an eau de cologne | eaux de cologne | |
SYNO | cologne | cologne water | eau de cologne |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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- eau de cologne {de} = eau de cologne
- de = the
- De mazzel! = Bye!
- De broedertwist = Asterix and the Great Divide
- De idioot = The Idiot [Fyodor Dostoevsky]
- De ziener = Asterix and the Soothsayer
- De intrigant = Asterix and the Roman Agent
- De Klap = Crash [J. G. Ballard]
- De Torenflat = High-Rise [J. G. Ballard]
- De huisgenoten = The Paying Guests [Sarah Waters]
- De echomaker = The Echo Maker [Richard Powers]
- De Nachtwacht = The Night Watch [Sarah Waters]
- De eregast = A Guest of Honour [Nadine Gordimer]
- aan (de) = at (the)
- de provincie = countryside
- de Holocaust = the Holocaust
- De mantel = The Robe [Henry Koster]
- in de openlucht = in the open air
- in de openlucht = outdoors
- De grote vier = The Big Four [Agatha Christie]
- De giftige pen = The Moving Finger [Agatha Christie]
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- Carlini, or "Eau de cologne", the man who empties the town's cesspits, is called to retrieve it.
- For example, "Auditorium 112" refers to cell number 112, where Zamyatin was twice imprisoned, and the name of S-4711 is a reference to the Eau de Cologne number 4711.
- The original "Eau de Cologne" is a spirit-citrus perfume launched in Cologne in 1709 by Giovanni Maria Farina (1685–1766), an Italian perfume maker from Santa Maria Maggiore Valle Vigezzo.
- In the 19th century he managed the perfume factory founded by his grandfather Wilhelm Mülhens at Cologne's Glockengasse 4711, producing the original Eau de Cologne.
- Koblet always carried a comb and a bottle of eau de cologne when he raced, sometimes combing his hair before the finish, always cleaning his face before meeting photographers.
- The favorite scent of the Tsarina Alexandra, composed specifically for her by Rallet in Moscow, had been an eau de cologne opulent with rose and jasmine named "Rallet O-De-Kolon N°1 Vesovoi".
- Local specialities include a sweet made of hazelnuts (which grow in abundance here) and an eau-de-cologne with the scent of grass.
- But Henry Goebel said that he had melted the glass of Eau-de-Cologne-Bottles with a blowpipe to produce the all-glass-envelope of his very first lamps in the 1850s.
- 4711 is a traditional German Eau de Cologne by Mäurer & Wirtz.
- Giovanni Maria Farina (born 8 December 1685, Santa Maria Maggiore; Germanized name: Johann Maria Farina, Francized: Jean Marie Farina – 25 November 1766, Cologne) was an Italian-born perfumier in Germany who created the first Eau de Cologne.
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Contains translations by TU Chemnitz and Mr Honey's Business Dictionary (German-English only).
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