单词 | scottish-american |
释义 | > as lemmasScottish-American C1. With nouns and adjectives designating a native or inhabitant of the country specified who is of Scottish origin or descent, as Scottish-American, Scottish-Canadian, etc. ΚΠ 1837 Evangelical Mag. 16 June 191/1 Our Scottish Canadian brethren. 1864 T. L. Nichols Forty Yrs. Amer. Life. I. xii. 138 Colonel M'Nab, an energetic Scottish Canadian. 1873 T. L. Cuyler Cedar Christian (new ed.) 202 We thank, too, those loyal Scottish-Americans the Carter Brothers. 1887 Sunday Inter Ocean (Chicago) 3 July ii. 1/6 She is a daughter of ‘Archie’ Cleghorn, a Scottish Australian. 1905 W. James in McClure's Mag. May 3/1 I wish to pay my tribute to the memory of a Scottish-American friend of mine who died five years ago. 1918 A. K. Yapp Romance of Red Triangle vi. 71 One Scottish-New Zealander, whose father is a well-known seed merchant in Edinburgh. 1921 New Internat. Year Bk. 1920 657/2 Stuart, Sir Thomas Anderson. Scottish-Australian physiologist, died February 28. 1940 J. Buchan Canad. Occasions (1969) 44 Scottish Canadians can do a very great deal to preserve the Scottish idiom in literature and in life. 1976 Bennington (Vermont) Banner 1 Sept. 6/4 The presentation of a ‘portrait mural’ of President Dwight D. Eisenhower to the University of St. Andrews on behalf of 30 million Scottish Americans. 1996 D. A. Bruce Mark of Scots (1998) iv. 92 By 1861 there were thirty thousand Scottish-New Zealanders, most of them at Otago and Waipu. 2007 Hornsby & Upper North Shore Advocate (Austral.) 1 Feb. 20 Martin Dando of St Ives, a Scottish South African, said he ‘loved’ Australia because there were no ‘airs and graces’. 2009 Sunday Tel. (Nexis) 2 Aug. 27 David Byrne, the Scottish-American musician, turns the Roundhouse in London into an organ. < as lemmas |
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