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Rhinelander|ˈraɪnlændə(r)|
[f. Rhineland + -er1: cf. G. Rheinländer.]
1. A native or inhabitant of the Rhineland.
1858H. Mayhew Upper Rhine ii. 51 Chickens cost from 6d. to 1s. each..though it must not be imagined that for this price the birds are anything like our own in quality, it being the custom of the Rhinelanders to fatten no animal for food. 1861Times 7 Oct. 6/3 What have the pious Belgians or the warm-hearted Rhinelanders..done in defence of the Pope's authority? 1866J. Bryce Holy Rom. Emp. (ed. 2) xvii. 338 The fall in a.d. 1477 of the great principality..was seen with pleasure by the Rhinelanders. 1902G. Meredith Let. ? 3 Mar. (1970) III. 1427 He is a descendant of those indomitable Lower Rhinelanders, who gave such trouble to the Romans. 1928Daily Tel. 27 Mar. 14/2 A parallel case..is the veto placed by the Coblenz High Commission on the singing by the Rhinelanders of the ‘Wacht am Rhein’. 1977‘R. West’ Celebration 528 ‘From Frankfurt!’ exclaimed my mother happily. ‘You are a Rhinelander!’
2. (Freq. in G. form Rheinländer.) A variety of German polka.
1887A. Zorn in P. J. S. Richardson Social Dance of Nineteenth Cent. in England (1960) ix. 102 In the year 1850 there appeared in all parts of Europe the ‘Schottische’, a round dance which had, as early as 1844, been executed in Bavaria under the name ‘Rheinlaender’, and in the Rhenish countries it was known as the ‘Bavarian Polka’. 1912A. Huxley Let. 13 May (1969) 41 There was a gingerbeer and other beer stall and a dancing floor where about fifty peasants in weird Hessian costume were dancing what I learnt was a Rhinelander, which looks like a mixture between a polka and a two-step. 1938B. Schönberg tr. Sachs's World Hist. of Dance vii. 436 The Rheinländer or the Bavarian polka, in contrast to the galop, is a slow polka. 1953J. Lawson Europ. Folk Dance xii. 116 Another polka-like step is called the Rheinländer and has an attractive zig-zag pattern. |