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ˈZembl(i)an, a. and n. rare.
[f. (Nova) Zembla = Russ. Novaya Zemlya ‘new land’.]
a. adj. Belonging to Nova Zembla, a group of islands in the Arctic Ocean north of Archangel in Russia; hence, arctic.
b. n. A native or inhabitant of Nova Zembla.
1674tr. La Martinière's New Voy. 34 Samoiedes, Siberians, Zemblians. Ibid. 122 We descryed..a Zemblane in a Canoe. 1749Cawthorn Poems (1771) 179 Thy unwearied soul..gave to Britain half the zemblian sky. 1806Shee Rhymes Art (ed. 3) 10 Lybian sands, or Zemblan snows. |