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Chicagoan|ʃɪˈkɑːgəʊən|
[f. prec. + -an.]
A native or inhabitant of the city of Chicago; spec. an exponent of a jazz style which originated there.
1861N.Y. Herald 25 May 8/1 Several thousand Zouave organizations..all dating their organization since the tour of the Chicagoians. 1882Advance (Chicago) 27 July, A nervous, brain-weary Yankee or Chicagoan. 1946R. Blesh Shining Trumpets (1949) x. 230 The earliest playing by Chicagoans shows the predominance of the one influence or the other. 1955R. Horricks in A. J. McCarthy Jazzbk. 1955 32 They are a resurrection of the white Chicagoans in so far as their music has everything but the rare, natural inspiration of the Negro jazzmen. 1958Times 22 Nov. 7/7 Chicagoans were ever perhaps the most essential, the most typical, of Americans. |