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- noun An
inhabitant ofZeeland .
Etymologies
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Examples
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My dad, the son of a Zeelander, told me of times when he and a few like-minded Young (Dutch) Turks would skate, of a Saturday, out from Sheboygan to Plymouth, by way of the river, there to partake in unnamed revelries and would then skate back in the moonlight.
john tagliabue | nieuwerkerk aan den ijssel « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009
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This time it was a nice, clean-cut, New Zeelander who was cycling around Europe.
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This time it was a nice, clean-cut, New Zeelander who was cycling around Europe.
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This time it was a nice, clean-cut, New Zeelander who was cycling around Europe.
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The Frisian differs from the Zeelander: one is fair and the other dark, and both differ from the Hollander.
Dutch Life in Town and Country P. M. Hough
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The Zeelander -- and particularly the Walcheren islander -- has the eccentricity to view the stranger as a natural object rather than a phenomenon.
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It is serener, happier, more human; while the nature of the Zeelander is to the stranger so much more ingratiating than that of the North Hollander.
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What, however, is to our eyes only a suggestion of inflammation, is to the Zeelander a beauty.
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Zeelander, whom I knew, with his family; [464] but he did not know me.
Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 Jasper Danckaerts 1898
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It was quite contrary to usage that a Zeelander should hold this the most important post in the Estates of Holland, but the influence of the princess and of Harris secured his unanimous election on December 3, 1787.
History of Holland George Edmundson 1889
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