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proper noun

Hollander n.

A native or one of the people of Holland; a Dutchman.

A very hard, semi-glazed, green or dark brown brick, which will not absorb water; called also, Dutch clinker.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Hollander" Quotes from Famous Books

... ordered them to take the d—d blunderheaded fellow below, and let some American take his place; but after this expression of brutality towards the poor jambed up Dutchman, not a man would go near the capstan, so one of their own crew filled up the vacancy made by the wounded Hollander. ...

— A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed. • Benjamin Waterhouse

... said Clovis, "but it must have been rather like composing the storm music of the 'Fliegende Hollander.' Jane was willing to take back some of her most libellous remarks if Dora would take back the hen, but Dora said that would be owning herself in the wrong, and you know she'd as soon think of owning slum property in Whitechapel ...

— Beasts and Super-Beasts • Saki

... is no reason why the simple little tale of the futile attempt to plant two German spies in my household at The Hague should not be told. One of the men in our domestic service, a Hollander, had been obliged to leave and we wanted to fill his place. This was difficult because the requirements of the Dutch army service claimed such a large number of the ...

— Fighting For Peace • Henry Van Dyke

... Vosmarin, a Hollander, kept a tamed pongo for a long time. He says, "My pongo had rather a sad and downcast look, but was gentle and affectionate, and very fond of society, preferring those persons who busied themselves about it. Once it seized a bottle of Malaga, ...

— Happy Days for Boys and Girls • Various

... Pennsylvania woodsman was filled with the romance of slaughter, a heritage of mingled Continental origins, Huguenot, Spanish, Portuguese, Swiss, Waldensian, Levantine, with the strains of Ulster Scot, Alsatian, Palatine, Hollander and Moravian, cooling cross currents in his veins. No wonder that the women of this blended race were the most darkly beautiful in the world, and a group of the curious edged weapons they carried to destroy men who annoyed them might well be the ...

— A Catalogue of Early Pennsylvania and Other Firearms and Edged Weapons at "Restless Oaks" • Henry W. Shoemaker

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