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- noun archaic an
inhabitant ofPoland , a personnative to Poland, or a person ofPolish origin.
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Examples
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Simon Childs and Carl Polander, of course, in the lobby of the Olde Chicago Hotel and Casino, where the PWSPD convention had taken place.
Fear Itself Jonathan Nasaw 2003
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Hark! no -- not a sound, save a child crying -- a goat bleating -- and the tramp overhead of the Polander in his chamber.
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The Polander had no business to flaunt his money-belt in your face, when you owe money!
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To the Swede and Polander there was no suggestion of achievement in the vast buildings in which they labored.
The Rapids Alan Sullivan 1907
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When men go forth and sacrifice their lives, then we say they believe in something as beyond anything else; and so our men in this country, boys of foreign birth, boys of foreign parentage, Greek and Dane and Italian and Russian and Polander and
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Wierski, a Polander, presented to Maximilian II., was 8 feet high.
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Polander, presented to Maximilian II, was 8 feet high.
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Jefferies could have urged the horses on, letting the big Polander run the risk of getting beneath their hoofs.
Elizabeth Hobart at Exeter Hall R. G. [Illustrator] Vosburgh 1895
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Everywhere they found the work they would have liked done by an Italian, Greek, Swede, German, or Polander who seemed strong as oxen, oblivious, as no doubt they were, to treatment
Michael O'Halloran Gene Stratton-Porter 1893
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I hear the graver has made a good market of it: all his Kings are bought up already; or the value of the remainder so enhanced, that many a poor Polander, who would be glad to worship the image, is not able to go to the cost of him; but must be content to see him here.
English Satires Various 1885
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