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Piedmontese, n. and a.|piːdmɒnˈtiːz|
Also 7 Piemontese.
[f. Piedmont (see prec.) + -ese.]
A. n.
a. The dialect of Piedmont in Italy.
b. A native or inhabitant of Piedmont.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to Piedmont, its inhabitants, or the dialect spoken by them.
1642[see Milanese n. 3]. 1655Milton Poems (1925) I. 236 Slain by the bloody Piemontese. 1673J. Ray Observations Journey Low-Countries 249 The Piemontese are generally well to live. 1768Sterne Sent. Journ. II. 200 The lady was a Piedmontese of about thirty. 1770[see courier 3]. 1776Lady A. Miller Lett. from Italy I. 90 The Spanish army..had not failed to guard all the passes they knew of, in order that no communication should be kept up between the Savoyards, the Piedmontese, and Swiss army. 1846Dickens Let. 22 June (1977) IV. 568 It [sc. Lausanne] contains only one Roman Catholic church, which is mainly for the use of the Savoyards and Piedmontese. 1858A. Gallenga Country Life in Piedmont 31 There is hardly an instance of a Piedmontese mountaineer settling permanently abroad. Ibid. 128, I have tried to convince the Piedmontese Press that [etc.]. 1878,1880[see Emilian a. and n.]. 1902Encycl. Brit. XXXI. 769/2 The Piedmontese dialect has been rather strongly influenced by French. 1927, etc. [see Ligurian n.]. 1931Times Lit. Suppl. 15 Oct. 787/2 The young Prince..was made commandant of the Piedmontese artillery. 1932G. F.-H. Berkeley Italy in Making I. xi. 160 Of course Gioberti was a Piedmontese, and in Piedmont the people were satisfied. 1968D. M. Smith Mod. Sicily xlviii. 446 Observers remarked on a tremendous feeling against everything which smacked of Piedmontese. 1974Times 1 Feb. 18/4 After his death the secretaryship passed on [to] Luigi Longo, a dour Piedmontese. 1977Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics XXII. i. 17 The Sermoni Subalpini..is the first extant Piedmontese document. |