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Andalusian, a. and n.|ændəˈluːʃ(ɪ)ən, -zɪən|
Forms: 7–9 Andalucian, Andaluzian.
[f. Andalusia (see below) + -an.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to Andalusia, a southern province of Spain, or its inhabitants or speech.
B. n.
a. A native or inhabitant of Andalusia.
b. The variety of Castilian spoken in Andalusia.
c. A Mediterranean breed of domestic fowl, rabbit, etc.
1612Shelton Quix. (1619) i. ii. 12 The Oast thought he had called him a Castellano, or Constable,..whereas he was indeede an Andaluzian. 1615Ibid. (1617) ii. i. 10 A famous Andaluzian Poet wept, and sung her teares: and another famous and rare Poet of Castile her beauty. 1740P. Pineda New Spanish Dict. (s.v. Andalùz), The Castilians, who have no good opinion of the Andaluzians. 1823Byron Juan xii. lxxv. p. 42 She cannot step as does an..Andalusian girl from mass returning. Ibid. xiii. xxiii. p. 66 And Juan, like a true-born Andalusian, Could back a horse. 1839G. Dennis Summer in Andalucia II. xvi. 385 This failing of the Andalucians betrays itself in many ways. 1854Poultry Chron. I. 101 Several so-called Andalusians, bred by a Minorca cock out of a Maltese hen... The Andalusian fowls were introduced to the notice of amateurs by Mr. Taylor, of Shepherd's Bush. 1862G. Borrow Wild Wales III. xxiv. 275 The place upon the whole put me very much in mind of an Andalusian village overhung by its sierra. 1868Darwin Var. Anim. & Plants under Domestication I. iv. 105 Various allied sub-breeds [of rabbit] are reared on the Continent, such as the so-called Andalusian, which is said to have a large head with a round forehead, and to attain a greater size than any other kind. 1879Cassell's Fam. Mag. Apr. 274/2 The experiment was once tried of fattening a youthful Andalusian [rabbit] entirely on clover hay. 1882Caulfeild & Saward Dict. Needlework 6/2 Andalusian Wool..is also called Victoria Wool, and is a fine soft warm make of woollen thread or yarn... It is the same wool as the Shetland, but is thicker. 1887Encycl. Brit. XXII. 351/1 The word ‘dialect’ is still more appropriately applied to Andalusian than either to Asturian or Navarrese-Aragonese. 1900J. D. M. Ford in Studies & Notes in Philol. & Lit. VII. 1 Andalusian and other dialect peculiarities are only incidentally concerned. 1911― Old Sp. Readings p. vii, Andalusian does not differ radically enough from Castilian to oblige us to regard it as a separate dialect. 1920Discovery July 200/2 This form of fowl is bluish-black with black lacing, and is called the Blue Andalusian. 1924Kipling Debits & Credits (1926) 229 The fifth bull rushed out—an unthinking black Andalusian. 1927Blackw. Mag. Sept. 313/1 A sky of Andalusian azure. 1936W. J. Entwistle Sp. Lang. vi. 220 Since 1600..there has been no ‘correct’ Andalusian, and the dialect has gathered to itself all current vulgarisms. |