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Ragusan, n. and a.|rəˈguːzən|
Also † Ragusian.
A. n.
a. An inhabitant of Ragusa, now Dubrovnik, on the Adriatic coast of Yugoslavia.
b. An extinct dialect of Dalmatian, spoken formerly by inhabitants of Ragusa.
1652Heylin Cosmogr. ii. 197 Languste, environed about with very high Mountains, in which are the Ragusians Farms. 1905Westm. Gaz. 29 Apr. 4/1 The advent of Napoleon I. early in the nineteenth century deprived Ragusans for ever of their freedom. 1933[see Dalmatian n. and a. 2]. 1967D. S. Parlett Short Dict. Lang. 38 Ragusan extinct since beginning C17.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to Ragusa.
1788Gibbon Decl. & F. V. vi. 613 The Apulian and Ragusian vessels fled to the shore. 1799R. Smelt Let. 6 Dec. in B. Ward Dawn Catholic Revival (1909) II. xxxi. 220 We sailed from Palermo on Saturday night, November ye 2nd: altogether seventeen sail, Imperial, Sicilian, Ragusian and American. 1932Times Lit. Suppl. 14 Jan. 27/1 If all the Ragusan men knew Italian, most of the ladies to whom their love poems were dedicated spoke only Slovinski. 1971Textile Hist. II. 10 In 1420 the Ragusan government arranged for a colony of traders from the Italian textile town of Prato to live in Ragusa. |