Schlieffen

German

Proper noun

Schlieffen m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Schlieffens or (with an article) Schlieffen, feminine genitive Schlieffen, plural Schlieffens or Schlieffen)

1. a surname
   • 1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914 (in English), Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 106:

     Surprisingly, Alina took banishment from Petersburg well, did not slink away to her mother in Borisoglebsk to wait for better times, but went with him to live in harsh and primitive conditions at the back of beyond, endured eighteen months of it unflinchingly, and was not too proud to cook and do the housework. He, at least, always had Schlieffen to pore over from day to day—but what had she got?