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Salvadorean, a. and n.|sælvəˈdɔərɪən|
Also Salvadoran, -ian.
[f. El Salvador (see below + -an.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to El Salvador, a republic in Central America.
B. n. A native or inhabitant of El Salvador.
1886Encycl. Brit. XXI. 268/2 The tree from which it [sc. Balsam of Peru] is obtained grows naturally nowhere else in the world except in a limited part of the Salvadorian seaboard known as the Balsam coast. 1887U.S. Consular Rep. XXIII. No. 82. 292 However great the advantage given to the Salvadorean debtor by English commercial codes,..American is worth 3 per cent. more than English gold. 1895Handbk. Salvador (Bull. Bureau Amer. Republics No. 58) 79 Salvadorians are such either by birth or naturalization. 1909‘O. Henry’ in McClure's Mag. July 330/1 For a Salvadorian he was not such a calamitous little man. 1941C. M. Wilson Central Amer. (1942) iii. 52 The distinctly Salvadoran Feast of the Holy Savior. 1947M. Lowry Let. Nov. (1967) 159 Mlle. Zaza, wife of Salvadorean new passenger. 1969Guardian 19 July 8/2 The quarter of a million Salvadoreans in Honduras. 1979Daily Tel. 20 Apr. 4/4 Another hostage, a Salvadorean who was the Israeli honorary consul. 1980Ibid. 11 July 19/7 A Mexican and a Salvadoran have been charged..with illegally smuggling a group of aliens..into the United States. 1981Times 24 Feb. 13/4 The victory of the Salvadorians is certain. |