Definition of "Moselle"

Moselle

/məʊˈzɛl/

proper noun
1. A river flowing from France into the Rhine at Koblenz (western Germany).
2. One of the départements in Grand Est, France.
noun
countable and uncountable, plural Moselles
1. A light white wine, made from Riesling grapes originating in the valley of this river.
  Quotations
  I drank too much moselle, imagining it a mere diuretic.
  1790, James Boswell, edited by Danziger & Brady, Boswell: The Great Biographer, Yale, published 1989, page 28