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epirot|ɪˈpaɪrət|
Also (sense b) Epirote |ɪˈpaɪrəʊt|.
[ad. Gr. ἠπειρώτης, f. ἤπειρος mainland, inland of a country as opposed to the coast.]
†a. One who dwells inland. Obs. rare—1.
1660Jer. Taylor Duct. Dubit. ii. i, The Greek and the barbarian, the epirot and the maritime.
b. (With capital initial.) A native or inhabitant of ancient or modern Epirus in north-western Greece and southern Albania; also as adj.
[1642Howell For. Trav. (1868) x. 50 You must go amongst the Mountaines and places of fastnesse, as the Epirotiques in Greece, the Heylanders in Scotland, the Brittaines in Wales.] 1835W. M. Leake Trav. N. Greece ii. 68 The Epirotes seem to have been quite prepared to receive the Roman yoke. 1844G. Finlay Greece under Romans iv. 411 Carians, Paionians, Epirots, and Macedonians. Ibid. 435 The slave population of Attica and Laconia were replaced by tribes of Epirot or Albanian peasants. 1915J. Buchan Thirty-Nine Steps i. 21 He has a bodyguard of Epirotes that would skin their grandmothers. Ibid. iv. 82 Epirote guards. 1932G. N. Cross Epirus i. 5 Theopompus..speaks of fourteen Epirot tribes. Ibid. ii. 20 In the days of King Pyrrhus..the Epirots were a united people. 1957D. M. Nicol Despotate of Epiros i. 15 The native Epirotes..were a warlike people. Ibid. 17 The possession of most of the Epirote and Albanian coast-line and islands..had been granted to Venice. |