(the) Siegfried Line

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• We're Going to Hang out the Washing on the Siegfried Line — is a popular song written by Irish songwriter Jimmy Kennedy, whilst he was a Captain in the British Expeditionary Force during the early stages of the Second World War. The Siegfried Line was a chain of fortifications along Germany s Western… …   Wikipedia

• Siegfried Line — The original Siegfried line ( Siegfriedstellung ) was a line of defensive forts and tank defenses built by Germany as a section of the Hindenburg Line 1916 1917 in northern France during World War I. However, in English, Siegfried line more… …   Wikipedia

• Siegfried Line — World War I German fortifications in France, from Ger. Siegfriedlinie, named for the hero in Wagner s Ring cycle …   Etymology dictionary

• Siegfried line — n. a system of heavy fortifications built before WWII on the W frontier of Germany …   English World dictionary

• Siegfried line — noun Etymology: Siegfried Date: 1918 a line of German defensive fortifications facing the Maginot Line …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• Siegfried Line — a zone of fortifications in W Germany facing the Maginot Line, constructed in the years preceding World War II. * * * ▪ German history       system of pillboxes and strongpoints built along the German western frontier in the 1930s and greatly… …   Universalium

• Siegfried Line — Sieg|fried Line, the a line of military defences that the German armies built on the ↑Western Front during World War I and before and during World War II …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• Siegfried Line — /ˈsigfrid laɪn/ (say seegfreed luyn) noun a zone of fortifications in western Germany facing the Maginot Line, constructed in the years preceding the invasion of France, 1940 …  

• Siegfried line — Sieg′fried line n. why a zone of fortifications in W Germany facing the Maginot line, erected before World War II …   From formal English to slang

• Siegfried line — noun German fortifications facing the Maginot Line • Instance Hypernyms: ↑fortification, ↑munition • Part Holonyms: ↑Germany, ↑Federal Republic of Germany, ↑Deutschland, ↑FRG …   Useful english dictionary