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Oldenburg   /ˈoʊldənbərg/   Listen
Oldenburg

noun
1.
United States sculptor (born in Sweden); a leader of the pop art movement who was noted for giant sculptures of common objects (born in 1929).  Synonyms: Claes Oldenburg, Claes Thure Oldenburg.






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"Oldenburg" Quotes from Famous Books



... Again, in Oldenburg, it is said that cornstalks must be scattered about a house in which death has entered, as a charm against further misfortune, and in the Tyrol an elder bush is often planted on a ...
— The Folk-lore of Plants • T. F. Thiselton-Dyer

... for a cough is to put a hair of the patient's head between two slices of buttered bread and give the sandwich to a dog. The animal will thereupon catch the cough and the patient will lose it. Sometimes an ailment is transferred to an animal by sharing food with it. Thus in Oldenburg, if you are sick of a fever you set a bowl of sweet milk before a dog and say, "Good luck, you hound! may you be sick and I be sound!" Then when the dog has lapped some of the milk, you take a swig at the bowl; and then the dog must lap again, and then you must swig again; ...
— The Golden Bough - A study of magic and religion • Sir James George Frazer

... account of the internal migrations in the grand duchy of Oldenburg gives the cities a surplus, and country municipalities a deficit, of 15,162 persons. In the economy of population one is the complement of the other, just as in the case of two brothers of different temperament, one of whom regularly spends what the other has laboriously ...
— Introduction to the Science of Sociology • Robert E. Park



Words linked to "Oldenburg" :   sculpturer, sculptor, Claes Thure Oldenburg, carver, statue maker, Claes Oldenburg



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