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Dutch profanity
Dutch profanity (vloeken, schelden) is Dutch taboo language, distinctive for swearing with diseases such as kanker, tyfus, and tering, explained by Calvinist predestination and secularization theories, plus borrowed English swear words.
Dutch psychological novel
The Dutch psychological novel (psychologische roman) is a subgenre of the novel in Dutch literature that centers on characters' thoughts, feelings, and motives, central since the late nineteenth century.
Dutch Reformed Church
The Dutch Reformed Church (Nederlandse Hervormde Kerk) is a family of Calvinist churches, most prominently South Africa's NG Kerk, founded in 1652 and later entangled with apartheid.
Dutch Republic
The Dutch Republic (Republic of the Seven United Dutch Provinces, 1588-1795), a federal republic born of the revolt against Spain: seven sovereign provinces, States-General in The Hague, VOC and WIC trade primacy, and collapse under French invasion in 1795.
Dutch roll
Dutch roll is an aircraft oscillation in which rolling and yawing motions occur out of phase, making the nose trace a figure eight on the horizon.
Dutch Safety Board
The Dutch Safety Board (Onderzoeksraad voor Veiligheid, OVV) is an independent Dutch administrative body, established in 2005, that investigates accidents and disasters and issues safety recommendations without determining guilt.
Dutch Sandwich
The Dutch Sandwich is a tax avoidance structure in which a shell Dutch conduit company routes royalties from an Irish operating company to tax havens such as Bermuda untaxed.
Dutch Schultz
Dutch Schultz (Arthur Flegenheimer, 1902-1935) was a Bronx bootlegger and Harlem numbers-racket boss pursued for tax evasion by Thomas Dewey; he was shot dead at Newark's Palace Chop House on Luciano's orders.
Dutch Shepherd
The Dutch Shepherd (Hollandse Herdershond) is a medium-sized brindle herding dog from the Netherlands, first standardized in 1898 and now used as a police and sport dog.
Dutch sonnet
The Dutch sonnet is the fourteen-line sonnet form as written in Dutch since 1565, when Lucas de Heere wrote the first, adapted from Italian and French models.
Dutch Symbolism
Dutch Symbolism is the reception of French Symbolism in Dutch-language literature and art of the Netherlands and Belgium from about 1890, with poets Leopold, Boutens, Verwey, and Van de Woestijne.
Dutch trade at Dejima
Dutch trade at Dejima was the Dutch East India Company's factory on the artificial island of Dejima in Nagasaki, Japan's only European trading post from 1641 to 1859.
Dutch Water Defence Lines
Dutch Water Defence Lines (Hollandse Waterlinies), UNESCO World Heritage site joining the Defence Line of Amsterdam and New Dutch Waterline: a 200 km system of 96 forts using knee-deep inundation to stop invaders, inscribed 1996 and extended 2021.
Dutch West India Company
The Dutch West India Company (Geoctrooieerde West-Indische Compagnie) was a chartered Dutch company, founded in 1621, holding a trade and colonization monopoly in the Americas and West Africa until 1791.
Dutch–Indonesian Round Table Conference
The Dutch–Indonesian Round Table Conference (Konferensi Meja Bundar, KMB) was a 1949 negotiation in The Hague that ended Dutch rule and arranged the transfer of sovereignty to Indonesia.
Dutch–Johor Treaty of 1606
The Dutch–Johor Treaty of 1606 refers to two allied agreements between the Dutch East India Company and the Sultanate of Johor, aimed at seizing Malacca from the Portuguese.
Dutch–Portuguese War
The Dutch–Portuguese War, also called Guerra Luso-Neerlandesa, was an early modern conflict in which Dutch companies seized Portuguese colonies across Asia, Africa, and Brazil from the 1590s to 1663.
Dutch–Siamese relations
Dutch–Siamese relations are the political, commercial, and diplomatic contacts between the Netherlands and Siam, beginning around 1600 when Dutch East India Company traders established a trading post at Ayutthaya.
Dutch–Siamese War (1663–1664)
The Dutch–Siamese War (1663–1664) was a trade conflict between Siam under King Narai and the Dutch East India Company, ending in a Dutch naval blockade and the 1664 treaty.
Dutchavelli
Dutchavelli (Stephan Fabulous Allen) is a British UK drill rapper, brother of Stefflon Don, raised in Rotterdam, who broke through in 2020 with "I Dunno" and the mixtape Dutch From The 5th.
Dutchess County, New York
Dutchess County, New York: Hudson Valley county founded 1683, named for Mary of Modena, Duchess of York. Seat Poughkeepsie; population about 300,708 (2025 estimate); home of FDR's Hyde Park and IBM sites.
Dutee Chand (ଦୁତୀ ଚାନ୍ଦ)
Dutee Chand (ଦୁତୀ ଚାନ୍ଦ), born 1996, Indian sprinter from Odisha; 100m national record holder (11.17), 2018 Asian Games double silver, 2019 Universiade gold, and the athlete whose 2015 CAS case suspended the IAAF hyperandrogenism rules.
Duterte family
Duterte family: Philippine political dynasty from Davao City; Rodrigo Duterte president 2016-2022, now detained at the ICC; daughter Sara Duterte is vice president facing a Senate impeachment trial.
Dutertism
Dutertism (Dutertismo) is a governance style adopted by Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte during his 2016–2022 term, combining anti-elite rhetoric, a punitive emphasis on discipline, and power concentration.
Duties of the Heart
Duties of the Heart (Ḥovot ha-Levavot) is a work of Jewish ethics by Bahya ibn Paquda, a Jewish judge in Zaragoza, written in Arabic around 1080.
Dutogliptin
Dutogliptin (PHX1149), a Phenomix DPP-4 inhibitor for type 2 diabetes; oral phase 3 program terminated, now a Recardio subcutaneous formulation for post-myocardial-infarction therapy.
Dutrieu Patera
Dutrieu Patera is an 80-km-wide patera (volcano-tectonic depression) on Venus at 33.80°N, 198.50°E, IAU-approved in 2006 and named for the Belgian/French pioneer aviatrix Hélène Dutrieu (1877–1961).
Dutta Samant
Dutta Samant (दत्ता सामंत), also spelled Datta Samant, "Doctorsaheb", was an Indian doctor-turned-trade-union leader who led the 1982-83 Bombay textile strike of about 250,000 mill workers, won seats as MLA and MP, and was assassinated in Mumbai in 1997.
Duttaphrynus
Duttaphrynus, also called Dutta's toads (头棱蟾属), is a genus of 24 Asian true toads (Bufonidae) split from Bufo in 2006, ranging from Pakistan and India to Indonesia, including the invasive Asian common toad D. melanostictus.
Dutton Ranch
Dutton Ranch is a 2026 Paramount+ neo-Western drama, a Yellowstone sequel spinoff starring Kelly Reilly and Cole Hauser as Beth Dutton and Rip Wheeler rebuilding in Rio Paloma, Texas; nine episodes, biggest Paramount+ original launch, renewed for season 2.