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Dresden

city in eastern Germany; the name is of Slavic origin, probably literally "the place in the forest," from Old Sorbian  drezga "forest." It is attested in English from 1735 in reference to elaborately decorated and colored objects of porcelain made near there.

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Definitions of Dresden from WordNet

Dresden (n.)
a city in southeastern Germany on the Elbe River; it was almost totally destroyed by British air raids in 1945;
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