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† Baleare, a. Obs.
[f. L. Baleāris.]
= Balearic. Hence Baleˈarian a. and n., and Balearic |bæliːˈærɪk|, a. [L. Baleāric-us], of or pertaining to, n. a native of, the islands Majorca, Minorca, Iviça, etc. (called by the Romans Baleares insulæ), in the Mediterranean Sea. Balearic Crane: the Crowned Crane.
1576Lambarde Peramb. Kent (1862) 299 The Iles named Baleares. 1601Holland Pliny I. 60 The two Baleare Islands. 1618Bolton Florus iii. vi. (1636) 191 The Tuscan Sea..[and] the Balearian. 1661Lovell Hist. Anim. & Min. Introd., The Crane, balearick or japonian. 1807Robinson Archæol. Græca iv. iv. 348 The Achaians..are thought by some to have excelled the Balearians. |