moselle

name

1. A left tributary of Rhine, flowing through the departments of Vosges, Meurthe-et-Moselle and Moselle in northeastern France, through Luxembourg, and through the states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland, Germany.
2. A department of Grand Est, France.

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)A light white wine, made from Riesling grapes originating in the valley of this river.

   “I drank too much moselle, imagining it a mere diuretic.”