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† suˈburbian, a. and n. Obs.
[f. L. suburbium suburb + -an.]
A. adj. Suburban; in 17th cent. often with reference to the licentious life of the (London) suburbs (cf. suburb 4 b).
1606Holland Sueton. 39 There is yet to be seene the place of his nourcery, within a suburbian house belonging to his Auncesters. 1609Rowley Search for Money (Percy Soc.) 37 We should returne back to the suburbian bordello (before mentioned). 1632Massinger City Madam iii. i, I know them—swaggering, suburbian roarers. 1653Consid. Dissolv. Crt. Chancery 47 Some of the Middlesex or Suburbian Justices. 1675T. Duffet Mock Tempest iii. i, Not pledge me, thou salt Suburbian Hackney, not pledge me. 1732Lond. Mag. I. 334 Give some share of credit to the out-lying night-walkers, and Suburbian ghosts. 1810Crabbe Borough xviii. 244 Suburbian prospects, where the traveller stops To see the sloping tenement on props.
B. n. A resident in the suburbs.
1607Dekker Knt's Conjur. (1842) 55 All the brokers in Long Lane Houns-ditch, or else wher, with all the rest of their colleagued suburbians that deale vppon ouerworne commodities. 1679Dryden Limberham iv. i, Down with the Suburbians, down with them. a1704T. Brown Lett. fr. Dead Wks. 1720 II. 248 A true profligate Suburbian. 1760Foote Minor i. Wks. 1799 I. 232 You cockneys now beat us suburbians at our own weapons. 1825C. M. Westmacott Engl. Spy I. 287 Scum of the suburbians. |