(n.) A regulus consisting essentially of nickel, obtained as a residue in fusing cobalt and nickel ores with silica and sodium carbonate to make smalt.
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Spiss
Definition:
(a.) Thick; crowded; compact; dense.
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(1) In May, Jäger confided, he was one of the five people in Spiss who cast their vote for Van der Bellen instead.
(2) Whereas hotels are already up and running in the valley down the road, the skiing season in Spiss has yet to start.
(3) Landeck, where both the villages of Kaunertal and Spiss are located, had the lowest turnout last time, at 62.1%.
(4) The divide between Kaunertal and Spiss reflects a wider split across a country in which one half is increasingly struggling to understand the other.
(5) And ideologically we are all Europeans here.” In Spiss, half an hour’s drive away, the same comments have won Hofer support.
(6) She acknowledged there were no refugees in Spiss, a community of no more than 133 inhabitants.
(7) While Kaunertal plans to join up skiing areas with South Tyrol in 2018, Spiss is burdened with the harder Swiss border, where customs officers go as far as controlling the piste between Samnauen and Ischgl on skis.
(8) Alois Jäger, the mayor of Spiss, rejected the idea that the local economy had driven support for Hofer, pointing to the refugee crisis and Van der Bellen’s age as key factors instead.
(9) One valley to the west, in Spiss, Van der Bellen’s opponent, the far-right populist Norbert Hofer, scored his best result.
(10) Isn’t it shocking that women can no longer walk home on their own at night unless they carry a can of pepper spray?” To describe Spiss as one of the losers of globalisation would be inaccurate.