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Rhine3|raɪn|
a. The name of the chief river of Germany, used attrib. to designate wines made from grapes growing in the Rhine valley. Cf. Rhenish.
1843Penny Cycl. XXVII. 455/2 We find the most renowned of the Rhine-wines produced between 50° and 51°. 1866Chambers's Encycl. VIII. 235/2 The red Rhine-wines..are not nearly so much prized as the white.
b. Rhine daughter, maiden [tr. G. Rheintochter], each of three water maidens, guardians of the Rheingold in Wagner's cycle of operas Der Ring des Nibelungen (1853–74); also used allusively of the fair blonde physique with which they are usu. portrayed.
1897W. A. Ellis Richard Wagner's Prose Works VI. 108 The ‘Rhine-daughters’ were played by Frl. Lilli and Marie Lehmann and Frl. Lammert. 1899G. Bell Let. 16 Aug. (1927) I. 51 We saw all the properties, and all the mechanism of the Rhine maidens. 1911G. B. Shaw Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet 356 From the Rhine maidens in Wagner's Trilogy, and the bathers in the second act of Les Huguenots, to the ballets of water nymphs in our Christmas pantomimes and at our variety theatres, the sound hygienic propaganda of the bath, and the charm of the undraped human figure, are exploited without offence on the stage to an extent never dreamt of by any novelist. 1922T. S. Eliot Waste Land 59 The Song of the (three) Thames-daughters begins here... V. Götterdämmerung, III, i: the Rhinedaughters. 1940W. Faulkner Hamlet iv. i. 276 To those below what Brunhilde, what Rhinemaiden on what spurious river-rock of papier mâché. 1950A. Wilson Such Darling Dodos 82 With her enormous height and ample frame, her flaxen hair and bovine eyes, she was like a head prefect in the role of a Rhine maiden. 1965V. Canning Whip Hand xiii. 148 The blond Siegfried type..and Katerina and Lottie, a couple of hand-picked Rhine-maidens. 1972J. Symons Players & Game xviii. 136 Her hair is fine as that of a Rhine maiden. |