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Kamchatkan, n. and a.|kæmˈtʃætkən|
Also Kamschatkan, Kamskatchan, Kamt(s)chatkan.
[f. Kamchatka (place-name); see -an.]
A. n. A person from the peninsula of Kamchatka in Siberia; often = prec.B. adj. Of or pertaining to Kamchatka.
1797Encycl. Brit. IX. 429/2 The southern Kamtchatkans commonly build their villages in thick woods. 1833W. L. Mackenzie Sk. Canada & U.S. 25 Even the wild Greenlander, the grim Kamschatkan, and the desolate Siberian love their barren wastes. 1865Dickens Mut. Fr. II. iv. v. 201 [She] sometimes might have issued her directions to equal purpose in the Kamskatchan language. 1871Month May–June 552 The marvellous fertility and floweriness of a Kamchatkan summer. 1888Athenæum 3 Mar. 270/3 An Eskimo offshoot, though mixed with Tuski or Kamtchatkan blood. 1890J. G. Frazer Golden Bough II. iii. 110 It was a principle with the Kamtchatkans never to kill a land or sea animal without first making excuses to it. 1917W. M. Salter Nietzsche 263 The Kamschatkans required that snow should never be scraped off with a knife. 1937Times 30 Dec. 9/3 By a Convention signed in 1928 Japan was given extensive fishing rights in Russian waters off the Kamchatkan and other eastern coasts. |