Rhenish adjective & noun. ['rɛnɪʃ] LME.
[Anglo-Norman reneis, Old French rinois, rainois from medieval Latin alt. of Latin Rhenanus, from Rhenus RHINE noun¹: see -ISH¹.]
A. adjective.
1. Of or pertaining to the River Rhine, or the regions bordering on it; Archaeology designating a type of pottery made in the Rhineland in the Roman period. LME.
Rhenish fan Philology a fan-shaped bundle of isoglosses in the Rhine valley, separating Low German from High German. Rhenish stoneware stoneware, usu. salt-glazed, manufactured in the Rhineland. Rhenish wine wine produced in the Rhine region.

2. Of, pertaining to, or designating a gold coin or gulden formerly current in Germany and the Netherlands. L15-L18.
b. noun. Rhenish wine. LME.

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