Holstein

  1. Proper noun.  The region between the rivers Elbe and Eider, to the south of Schleswig, part of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein.
  2. Noun.  A type of dairy cattle, distinctively colored in splotches of black and white.
  3. Noun.  A breed of horse, thought to be the oldest of the warmblood breeds, used in show jumping.
  4. Proper noun.  (surname) .
  5. Noun.  (rare) (alternative spelling of, Holstein) ''(breed of cattle)''.

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