Dalmatiann.adj.
/dalˈmeɪʃən/ A. n.
1. A native or inhabitant of Dalmatia.
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1581 W. Allen Apol. Two Eng. Colleges iii. f. 29v He [sc. Gregory XIII] hath made one [seminary] for the Dalmatians.
1654 T. Bayly End to Controv. 11 Dalmatians, who immediately after their supper inducing, or mixing, the Heresies of Manchæus with the Catholike Religion, were overthrown, and supplanted by the Turks.
1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall V. lv. 543 The language of the Dalmatians, Bosnians, Servians [etc.].
1911 Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 507/2 The Venetians..regained their power over the Dalmatians.
2. elliptical for Dalmatian dog n. at sense B. 2.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > other types of dog > [noun] > Dalmatian
spotted dog1621
tiger-dog1682
carriage dog1760
Dalmatian dog1810
coach-dog1840
plum pudding1851
plum-pudding dog1852
lesser Dane1870
Spotted Dick1880
Dalmatian1893
1893 H. Dalziel Dis. Dogs (ed. 3) 58 Dogs that travel much on hard dry roads, as Dalmatians often do.
1959 Chambers's Encycl. IV. 579/2 The Dalmatian..is large with a white coat covered with black or brown spots.
3. A Romance language formerly spoken by natives of Dalmatia.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > postulated Italo-Celtic > Romance > Dalmatian
Dalmatian1911
Ragusan1933
Vegliote1933
1911 Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 507/2 Of these nine [Romance] languages, Dalmatian is now extinct.
1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. iv. 61 The Dalmatian is extinct: one of the dialects, Ragusan, died out in the fifteenth century; another, Veliote, survived into the nineteenth.
1954 M. A. Pei & F. Gaynor Dict. Linguistics 52 Dalmatian, an extinct Romance language, spoken formerly on the eastern coast of the Adriatic.
B. adj.
1. Of or relating to Dalmatia.
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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > countries of Eastern Europe > [adjective] > regions of the former Yugoslavia
Croatian1599
Istrian1607
Bosnian1621
Dalmatiana1684
Illyrian1820
Montenegrian1830
Montenegrin1840
Montenegran1858
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1645 (1955) II. 446 A prospect down the Adriatic as far as Istria & the Dalmatian side.
1813 J. C. Eustace Tour through Italy I. vii. 163 This wonderful event..is attested by the ocular evidence of some Dalmatian peasants.
1936 A. W. Clapham Romanesque Archit. W. Europe iii. 63 That masterpiece of Dalmatian art the west doorway of the cathedral of Trogir (Trau).
2. Dalmatian dog n. (also Dalmatian pointer, etc.) the spotted coach-dog, sometimes called ‘smaller Danish dog’.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > other types of dog > [noun] > Dalmatian
spotted dog1621
tiger-dog1682
carriage dog1760
Dalmatian dog1810
coach-dog1840
plum pudding1851
plum-pudding dog1852
lesser Dane1870
Spotted Dick1880
Dalmatian1893
1810 Sporting Mag. 36 61/2 Portrait of a Dalmatian dog.
1824 T. Bewick Hist. Quadrupeds (ed. 8) 339 The Dalmatian, or Coach Dog..has been erroneously called the Danish Dog..It is frequently kept in genteel houses, as an elegant attendant on a carriage.
1881 Daily News 1 Sept. 5/2 The Dalmatian pointer, commonly known as a plum-pudding dog.
1897 Westm. Gaz. 11 Feb. 4/1 The ‘plum-pudding’ breed, as the Dalmatian or carriage dog is commonly termed, is so well represented as to make it obvious that this breed is rapidly coming to the front again.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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