Meaning of Hofburg | Babel Free
Definitions
The principal residence of the Habsburg dynastic rulers (and, later, of the president of Austria), located in Vienna; (metonymically), the Habsburg regime.
Examples
“A week later, via the prescribed channels, he requested an audience with His Majesty, and one morning, three weeks after that, he found himself face⟳ to face⟳ with His Supreme Commander-in-Chief in the Hofburg.”
“In the 1780s however these were just a couple of strands in the mayhem of Josephine reform⟳, with decrees streaming out of the Hofburg […] at an astounding rate.”
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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