Scheveningen
Proper noun
Meaning
Scheveningen
A neighbourhood in The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands.
Examples
Yesterday it was divinely beautiful [at Scheveningen beach]. These barges lay in dense rows against the slope [of the beach], and between them one walked as between a fancy-built city and from above between all those tarred hulls coal-black, gray, green and white, a deep blue sky.
1994-95: The ICTY established its offices within the Aegon Insurance Building in The Hague (which was, at the time, still partially in use by Aegon) citation and detention facilities in Scheveningen in The Hague (The Netherlands).
In the 18th century, the villages along the coast, including Scheveningen, were forbidden to gut the caught herring.