1533 T. Paynell tr. U. von Hutten De Morbo Gallico xix. f. 44 As for the Polonians [L. Polonos],..this nation I say ought to remembre them selfe, and haue regarde to theyr dignitie.

1565 R. Shacklock tr. S. Hozjusz Hatchet of Heresies f. 2^v Among all those people, which be vnder youre Maiesties obedience, whether they be Polonians [L. Poloni], either Litvanians, either Catholyke Russians, Prussians, or Masouians.

1603 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Hist. Descr. Worlde 155 Of mercenary soldiers..he had 4300 Polonians.

1650 Man in Moon 16–23 Jan. 309 The Venetians, Germans, Swedes, and Polonians..now hate English men to the death.

1704 J. Trapp Abra-Mule i. i. 70 The rough insolence of stern Polonians.

1729 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers II. xv. 583 The French, Polonians, Venetians, Germanes, and other your Confederates, which travel through diverse of the East Parts.

1864 J. H. Burton Scot Abroad II. ii. 179 Scottish colonels that served..against the Tartar, and the Polonian.

1958 Stevens Point (Wisconsin) Daily Jrnl. 27 Sept. 4/1 Out of this handful of Polish immigrants—Polonians as they were first called—has grown a substantial segment of our American population.

1976 H. Znaniecka Lopata Polish Americans ii. 29 Criticism of America brings out the Americanized identity of Polonians.

1996 L. Al-Hafidh et al. Europe: Rough Guide (ed. 3) II. xx. 973 In the ninth century the Polonians founded a castle on an island in the River Warta.

1792 J. Pinkerton Sc. Poems Repr. I. p. xli This dress is now called a polonian.

c1817 J. Hogg Tales & Sketches IV. 216 Ladies,..their number quite countless—dressed in green pollonians, and grass-green bonnets on their heads.

1818 J. Hogg Brownie of Bodsbeck II. 183 The bogles will..hae to pit on their pollonians o' the pale colour o' the fair day-light.

1895 J. Geikie in Jrnl. Geol. (Chicago) 3 249 Polandian. To this stage belong the glacial and fluvio-glacial accumulations of the minor Scandinavian mer de glace... The ice-sheet extended well into Poland.]

1914 J. Geikie Antiq. of Man in Europe ix. 257 The cold conditions that characterised the close of the Tyrolian stage obviously signalled the approach of another glacial epoch—the Third or Polonian.

1927 H. Peake & H. J. Fleure Hunters & Artists i. 10 In his Munro Lectures in 1913 he [sc. James Geikie] recognized six glacial epochs as occurring in Scotland. These he termed, beginning at the first, the Scanian, the Saxonian, the Polonian, the Mecklenburgian, the Lower Turbarian, and the Upper Turbarian.

1576 G. Gascoigne Delicate Diet sig. Ciii^v The Spanish codpeece on the bellye: the Itallyan waste vnder the banch bones: the Frenche kuffes: the Polonian Hose: the Dutch Ierken: and the Turkie Bonnet.

1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iv. xiii. 126 b A long cappe after the Polonian [Fr. à la Polaque] or Georgian fashion.

1655 J. Owen Vindiciæ Evangelicæ in Wks. (1853) XII. 18 This Captain-general of the Polonian forces.

1687 S. Nye Brief Hist. Unitarians 109 The Polonian Unitarians were..zealous.., the Unitarians of Transylvania were more moderate.

1702 C. Brockwell tr. S. von Pufendorf Compl. Hist. Sweden ii. 358 A general Diet of Polonian States held at Warsaw.

1776 W. J. Mickle in tr. L. de Camoens Lusiad Introd. p. lv He was a Polonian Jew by birth.

1857 F. Gerhard Illinois as it is 390 In 1855, Chicago exported..four times as much [wheat] as Dantzic, the place of export of the Polonian wheat.

1940 K. Weber Lucius Cary v. 204 A fraternal sympathy for the sister churches of the Reformation—including the Polonian.

1984 Times 24 May 8/6 So-called Polonian enterprises, which use the foreign capital of Poles living abroad.

1847 N. Amer. Rev. Apr. 463 We talk everlastingly: our magazines are nothing but talk, and that of a flaccid and Polonian fibre.

1930 C. E. Montague & M. Montague Writer's Notes on his Trade 31 If you read in the Polonian spirit,..reading an old book again when a new one comes out, you will find that the whole of what you have read is comfortably within reach of your hand.

1956 C. P. Snow Homecomings xxxv. 171 ‘Listening never did any of us any harm, and talking usually does,’ said Bevill, in one of his Polonian asides.

1997 Independent (Nexis) 24 Sept. 14 I wonder, if Pinocchio gets a bit fed up with all this Polonian counsel, and tells Jiminy Cricket to take a running jump?