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Mallorquin, n. and a.|məˈlɔːkɪn, məˈljɔː-|
Also -quine.
[Sp. Mallorquín, f. Mallorca Majorca: see Majorcan n. and a.]
= Majorcan n. and a. Also, the language of the Mallorquins.
1839Penny Cycl. XIV. 339/1 In character the Mallorquines somewhat resemble the Catalans. 1868H. O'Shea Guide to Spain & Portugal (ed. 3) 342/2 The ‘Mallorquin’ is a corruption of the Catalan dialect. 1869H. W. Bates Illustr. Trav. I. 267/2 The women of Soller are..by no means so plain in their appearance as the majority of the Mallorquine females. 1875Encycl. Brit. III. 277/2 A railway is in course of construction from Palma by Inca to Alcudia, and the stock is all held by Mallorquins. 1926R. Macaulay Crewe Train i. i. 4 As..his knowledge of the Mallorquin idiom improved..he discovered that Mallorquins are almost the kindest and most sociable people in the world. 1929D. H. Lawrence Let. 26 May (1932) 806 The Mallorquin servants cooked Spanish rice over a fire. 1952[see Ibizan a.]. 1954T. Maynard Long Road of Father Serra (1956) i. 2 They have their own language, Mallorquin, even if this is no more than a dialect of Catalan. 1973Times 3 Mar. 26/2 Mallorquin, the local dialect of the native Catalan language, runs a poor second. 1974R. Jeffries Mistakenly in Mallorca iii. 24 A Mallorquin inlaid sideboard. Ibid. v. 34 She was not..a Mallorquin or a Spaniard. |