Tilsit

[ til-zit, -sit ]

/ ˈtɪl zɪt, -sɪt /

former name of Sovetsk.

a semihard, light yellow cheese made from whole milk, similar in flavor to mild Limburger.

Example sentences from the Web for tilsit

Napoleon decided, after Tilsit, that the Spanish peninsula must be brought more completely under his control.

An Introduction to the History of Western Europe |James Harvey Robinson
"You will go far," he said, and took him to Tilsit with him.

War and Peace |Leo Tolstoy
Fouch has admitted in his Memoirs that the right was indeed given by a secret clause in the Treaty of Tilsit.

The German War |Arthur Conan Doyle
There had then been a talk of Tilsit, and diverting the stream, or part of it towards Macdonald in the north.

Barlasch of the Guard |H. S. Merriman

It becomes manifest at the treaty of Presbourg and still more evident at the treaty of Tilsit.

The Origins of Contemporary France, Volume 5 (of 6) |Hippolyte A. Taine

Tilsit

/ (ˈtɪlzɪt) /

the former name (until 1945) of Sovetsk