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Ollendorffian, a.|ɒlɪnˈdɔːfɪən| Also Ollendorfian. [f. the name of Heinrich Gottfried Ollendorff, German educator and grammarian (1803–65) + -ian.] In the stilted language of foreign phrase-books.
[1876C. M. Yonge Womankind vi. 40 German [learnt] by the Ollendorf method. ] [1886F. M. Crawford in H. Norman Broken Shaft 18 The simple but instructive dialogues of Herr Ollendorff.] 1892New Rev. Feb. 252 But the characters have as much individuality as the Ollendorffian prattlers about the gardener. 1900Sketch 21 Feb. 191/2 She persisted in firing off Ollendorfian French at the waiters. 1905Westm. Gaz. 8 July 2/3 ‘Views’ which we snapshot, be they views of mountains or of men, and whether we use Kodak or Ollendorffian chit-chat to produce them. 1918L. Huxley Life J. D. Hooker II. xliii. 327 He started them also, and very successfully, with colloquial Latin from an Ollendorffian French handbook. 1934H. G. Wells Exper. Autobiogr. II. ix. 766 A sort of Ollendorfian French. |