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(5) "The drive to Fuessen takes two glorious hours * * * Townhouses * * * decorate a lattice of cobbled lanes beneath steeply-raked roofs. In a cavern-like tavern where dirndls and lederhosen are compulsory (for the staff at least), each guest gets a bib, a tankard of beer and a plate of pork knuckle * * * But the town's main draw is its role is as base camp for the campest castle in Christendom: Neuschwanstein. The hilltop citadel, built for Ludwig II of Bavaria, is the most recognisable castle in Europe. You'll probably have seen its playful twirls of towers and turrets decorating a postcard, a tourist brochure or a guidebook cover. And if you haven't? Well, one word sums it up: Disneyesque. Walt himself chose Neuschwanstein as the model for the Sleeping Beauty's castle"
(a) "steeply-raked roofs"
(i) raked (adj): "sloping <a steeply raked stage, sloping down towards the audience> <raked wings> <a raked mast>"
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/raked
(ii) rake (n; origin unknown): "inclination"
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rake
(b)
(i) dirndl
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirndl
Remember: This is English Spelling. Germans ALWAYS capitalize the first letter of German nouns.
(ii) dirndl (n; German dialect Dirndl girl): "a dress style with tight bodice, short sleeves, low neck, and gathered skirt"
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dirndl
(c)
(i) lederhosen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lederhosen
(ii) For the definition of "hosen," see (2).
(d) tankard
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankard
(e) The "campest" is the superlative of
camp
(n): "something so outrageously artificial, affected, inappropriate, or out-of-date as to be considered amusing
(adj): "of, relating to, being, or displaying camp
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/camp
(f)
(i) Neuschwanstein
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuschwanstein_Castle
(English: New Swanstone Castle; Ludwig [II] paid for the palace out of his personal fortune and by means of extensive borrowing, rather than Bavarian public funds)
Quote: “Ludwig called the new palace New Hohenschwangau Castle; only after his death was it renamed Neuschwanstein. The confusing result is that Hohenschwangau and Schwanstein have effectively swapped names: Hohenschwangau Castle replaced the ruins of Schwanstein Castle, and Neuschwanstein Castle replaced the ruins of the two Hohenschwangau Castles.
(ii) For the definition of Schwan," see (2).
(iii) History of the Origins of Neuschwanstein Castle. Bayerische Schlösserverwaltung der staatlichen Schlösser, Gärten und Seen (English: Bavarian Department of State-owned Palaces, Gardens and Lakes), undated
www.neuschwanstein.de/englisch/idea/
("Hohenschwangau was decorated with scenes from medieval legends and poetry, including the legend of the swan knight Lohengrin. Ludwig [II] identified himself when still a boy with Lohengrin, to whom Richard Wagner dedicated a romantic opera in 1850. The swan was also the heraldic animal of the Counts of Schwangau, whose successor the king [Ludwig, which is Herman variant of Louis] considered himself to be. Maximilian II [who was Ludwig II's father] had already made the swan a leitmotif of Hohenschwangau. Idealization of the Middle Ages was thus combined with concrete local tradition")
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