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Crimean, a.|kraɪˈmiːən|
[f. Crimea, name of a peninsula lying between the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea, the chief seat of a war (1854–6) between Russia and Turkey (with its allies).]
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the Crimea; Crimean Gothic, name given to an East Germanic language, supposedly a dialect or descendant of Gothic, which continued to be used in the Crimea down to the sixteenth century; Crimean shirt, a shirt worn by workers in the Australian and New Zealand bush (also Crimea shirt).
[1591G. Fletcher Russe Commonw. xix. 72v Some thinke that the Turkes tooke their beginning from the nation of the Chrim Tartars.] 1855F. Nightingale Let. in C. Woodham-Smith F. Nightingale (1951) x. 231, I have now had all that this climate can give. Crimean fever. Dysentery. Rheumatism. 1855(title) The illustrated Crimean war song⁓book of the allies. 1862R. Henning Let. 29 Aug. (1966) 96 He..had seen fit to array himself in a Crimean shirt which he put on over his other clothes. 1893K. Mackay Out Back (ed. 2) i. ix. 108 Crimean shirts, tight-cut moles, and light square-toed bluchers completed their costume. 1895‘R. Boldrewood’ Crooked Stick iii. 80 A young man, whose Crimean shirt and absence of necktie denoted..the presumed abandon of bush life. 1899Beerbohm in Sat. Rev. 14 Jan. 45/1 An actor made up as a young ‘swell’, with glengarry, cheroot, and ‘Crimean beard’! 1902W. Satchell Land of Lost ii. 14 He wore a blue Crimea shirt open at the throat. 1913J. D. Jones tr. Loewe's Germanic Philol. i. v. 16 Crimean Gothic can have been no real Gothic dialect, as it did not undergo the different changes common to East and West Gothic. 1927M. M. Bennett Christison x. 110 Christison gave Mickey a Crimean shirt. 1943C. L. Wrenn Word & Symbol (1967) 137 The famous ‘Crimean Gothic’..rests on no other foundation than that of a hastily-written list of some seventy words and phrases which Busbecq thought he heard from two men who had been in the Crimea. 1958A. S. C. Ross Etymology ii. 74 Germanic..falls into three groups, the first containing only Gothic (texts of IV and VI c. a.d., also fragments of Crimean Gothic recorded 1560 a.d.), the other two being North and West Germanic. 1971Times 1 Jan. 11/3 If some Baptists or Crimean Tatars or dissident writers tried to hijack an aircraft they would almost certainly be more severely dealt with than ordinary citizens. |