Low Countries
Americanplural noun
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the lowland region near the North Sea, forming the lower basin of the Rhine, Meuse, and Scheldt rivers, divided in the Middle Ages into numerous small states: corresponding to modern Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands.
plural noun
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the lowland region of W Europe, on the North Sea: consists of Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands
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The Swiss Brethren was one of several Anabaptist churches—churches rejecting infant baptism in favor of adult baptism—that were established in the sixteenth century, primarily in central Europe and the Low Countries.
From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022
Without overwhelming help from the Allies in World Wars I and II, France and the Low Countries of Netherlands and Belgium would have been overrun by the Nazis.
From Washington Post • Apr. 15, 2022
Several of the most popular urbanist Twitter accounts are based in the Low Countries and Scandinavia, with many followers across the Atlantic.
From Slate • Jan. 6, 2022
Through the rest of 1939 and into the spring of 1940, Hitler hunched on the borders of France and the Low Countries, his Panzers idling, poised to strike.
From The Guardian • May 22, 2019
That day, he was in Breda, in the Low Countries, serving in the army of the Protestant Maurice of Nassau.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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