colonialadj.n.
/kəˈləʊnɪəl/, U.S. /kəˈloʊnjəl/, /kəˈloʊniəl/ A. adj.
1. Roman History. Of a town or city: comprising or containing a settlement of Roman citizens (especially veteran soldiers), esp. in newly conquered or hostile territory; (also) having the same rank or privileges as a settlement of this type. Cf. colony n. 1a.
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1729 J. Ogilvie tr. P. Giannone Civil Hist. Kingdom Naples I. i. i. 5 Capua was once in that state,..before it was chang'd into the Form of a Colonial City [It. in forma di Colonia].
1850 C. Anthon Syst. Anc. & Mediæval Geogr. 290 Lucus Ferōniœ..at first merely a place sacred to the worship of Feronia, but afterward raised to the dignity of a colonial town.
1917 Jrnl. Rom. Stud. 7 242 In a serious war it was more convenient to have some form of unified command concentrating the administration and resources of such a colonial garrison city under one officer.
2002 Papers of Brit. School Rome 70 157 Probably one of many tituli operum publicorum erected in an expanding colonial city, [this inscription]..may more nearly represent the routine design and lettering practices of the day.
2. Of, relating to, or characteristic of colonialism or colonialists. Now often depreciative, with reference to the oppression and exploitation of colonized peoples under western colonial rule, and the racist attitudes which underpinned colonialism. Cf. colonialism n. 1.
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1764 Crit. Rev. Nov. 393 Mr. Otis is a warm advocate for the colonial cause he espouses.
1768 Let. 19 Nov. in Maryland Gaz. (1769) 23 Feb. 28/1 You may..be assured that an Officer will be appointed, who is entirely free from colonial Prejudices.
1885 Earl Granville in E. Hertslet Map Afr. by Treaty (1894) II. 596 A Memorandum of Agreement for separating and defining the spheres of action of Great Britain and Germany in those parts of Africa where the Colonial interests of the two countries might conflict.
1957 L. Durrell Bitter Lemons 146 The United Nations,..whose attention could be more quickly drawn to ‘colonial oppression’ than to an Indian famine.
1958 Spectator 14 Feb. 201/3 Firm paternal rule of the kind which it is now fashionable to condemn as ‘imperialistic’ or ‘colonial’.
2019 A. Bhagwati Unbecoming xi. 201 Like many Brown folks from the global south, I could smell colonial attitudes a mile away.
3.
a. Of, relating to, or belonging to a colony or colonies, esp. those of the British Empire (cf. colony n. 3c).
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society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > [adjective] > relating to former British colonies
colony1637
provincial1676
colonial1766
colonial1776
society > authority > rule or government > a or the system of government > direct rule, devolution, or trusteeship > [adjective] > relating to colonial system
colonial1766
colonializing1902
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > [adjective] > colonized > of or relating to a colony
colonial1766
colonialized1883
colonialized1968
society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > specific policies or advocacy of > [adjective] > relating to colonialism
colonial1766
colonializing1902
colonialistic1905
colonialist1930
1766 Crit. Rev. Jan. 71 We never observed in any controversy, which may be strictly called commercial and colonial, such a passion for displaying their reading, as the authors engaged in the present discover.
1837 J. R. McCulloch Statist. Acct. Brit. Empire II. iii. v. 150 Coffee, indigo, spices, and other foreign and colonial articles.
1884 Standard 28 Feb. 5/1 In defiance of the expressed wishes of the Colonial Office.
1997 C. Jourdan & R. Keesing in Lang. in Society 26 411 With the first moves toward independence, indigenization of the skilled workforce, and the creation of a Melanesian town out of a colonial outpost, they had set into motion sociolinguistic processes that they could not control or anticipate.
2018 E. Castillo Amer. is not Heart 56 Her namesake..was the descendant of upper-middle-class sangley mestizos, their ancestors Hokkien-speaking merchants who'd made their wealth in the Philippines during the colonial period.
b. Of or belonging to the (former) British colonies in North America, esp. those that ratified the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and thereby became founding states of the US. Cf. colony n. 3c(b).
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society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > [adjective] > relating to former British colonies
colony1637
provincial1676
colonial1766
colonial1776
1776 Parl. Reg. 1775–80 III. 336 Their endeavours to preserve their colonial constitution.
1882 N. Amer. (Philadelphia) 16 Feb. He is descended on his father's side from a colonial Virginia family.
1963 J. A. Hostetler Amish Society (1980) ii. ix. 198 These party or ‘ring’ games were characteristic not only of the Amish but of settlers in the colonial period in America.
2021 Times West Virginian (Fairmont) (Nexis) 17 June The kids and parents flocked to Prickett's Fort to learn about life in colonial America.
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a. Chiefly North American. Belonging to or characteristic of the period of the (former) British colonies in North America (cf. sense A. 3b).
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1795 in C. B. Wadstrom Ess. Colonization II. Directions to Bookbinder (end matter) All the plates to be placed at the end of the work, in the following order, Plate I. The Colonial House.
1824 W. J. Burchell Trav. Interior S. Afr. II. xiv. 372 He had partly laid aside his colonial dress, and had adopted that of the Bichuanas.
1896 Brooklyn Daily Eagle 27 Oct. (Four o'clock ed.) 1/2 A colonial fete will take place at the Grace M. E. church to-morrow and Thursday.
1912 Brooklyn Life 11 May 4/2 The new Tea Room..is delightfully fresh and cheerful looking, with soft, evenly diffused light and Colonial decorations.
2016 Press (Christchurch, N.Z.) (Nexis) 17 Oct. 4 The two store attendants inside are dressed in colonial attire, pinafores wrapped around their waists and hair reminiscent of a bygone era.
b. Designating any of various styles of architecture characteristic of a period in which a country was under colonial rule. Chiefly: spec. designating the predominantly neoclassical style of architecture or furniture characteristic of former British colonies; designating a building or piece of furniture in this style.Cf. Dutch colonial adj., English colonial adj., French colonial adj.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > period, movement, or school of art > 17th century-mid 19th century > [adjective] > other styles of 17-mid 19th century
rococo1840
Louis Quatorze1855
Louis Quinze1875
colonial1886
Louis Seize1892
Louis Treize1892
Queen Anneish1926
Directoire1942
1886 Weekly Detroit Free Press 18 Sept. 2/1 The house is filled with old colonial furniture, portraits and souvenirs.
1886 Harper's Mag. Oct. 668/1 The building has rather a colonial character with its long corridors and pillared piazzas.
1903 W. B. Yeats Let. 25 Dec. (1994) III. 497 He lives about an hour's journey from New York, on the side of a wooded hill, and his house, which is in what they call here their ‘old colonial style’, would have been a delight to Morris.
1995 Times (Victor Harbor, S. Austral.) 11 July 13/4 Superbly presented, refurbished colonial cottage in cottage garden setting.
2006 C. Mandell tr. B.-H. Lévy Amer. Vertigo (U.K. ed.) iii. 105 Rare dapples of colour (an old colonial house, the remnants of a zocalo)..are all that survives of the quaint little village that numbered barely a few dozen houses a century ago.
5. That trades in goods and produce from a colony or colonies.
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society > trade and finance > specific types of trade > [adjective] > trading with specific place
colonial1798
on-licensed1899
1798 Oracle & Public Advertiser 17 May The Bill..would oblige Colonial Merchants to wait for Convoy in the same manner as the Merchants of this country.
1820 F. L. Holt Syst. Shipping & Navigation Laws Great Brit. I. i. ii. 70 The colonial merchant and planter have as wide a market, and as numerous purchasers, as their stock requires.
1888 Ipswich Jrnl. 26 Oct. 3/2 (advt.) Wanted, a Provision and Colonial Shop, in a busy neighbourhood, for a good class of goods.
1902 ‘X. C.’ Everyday Life in Cape Colony ix. 122 In most of these Colonial stores ‘bush’ tea can be bought.
1922 Daily Mail 30 Sept. 5/5 Mr. Sellors is a colonial broker in business in the city.
2001 Archaeology Mar. 48/2 They also became the dominant supplier of yerba mate (South American tea), arousing the resentment of Spanish colonial merchants.
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a. Biology. Designating organisms that live as a colony of physically linked and physiologically connected individuals; relating to or characterized by this mode of life. Cf. colony n. 10b.
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the world > life > biology > balance of nature > organisms in interrelationship > [adjective] > aggregate or colony
aggregate1792
aggregated1817
coloniala1835
a1835 J. MacCulloch Proof & Illustr. Attributes God (1837) II. xxv. 52 In the colonial coral animals, we see no end, if I except the construction of rocks by a few; while the association is compulsory, under a mechanical force, for the production of a work in which we discover no purpose.
1854 W. I. Burnett tr. C. T. E. von Siebold Anat. Invertebrata ii. 51 With the colonial polyps the sexes are separate, and each colony may be composed of individuals which are androgynous, or those of one sex alone.
1881 Gentleman's Mag. July 77 A fifth inference directs attention to the essentially colonial constitution of even the highest animals, as exhibited in their cellular structure.
1939 W. H. Twenhofel Princ. Sedimentation ix. 329 Colonial corals have been among the chief contributors to the building of the reefs.
1967 R. Rosen Optimality Principles in Biol. iv. 63 A transition must then have been made from isolated single cells to a multicellular organism, probably through the intermediary of a colonial stage.
2007 Dive Oct. 87/1 They [sc. siphonophores] are planktonic, colonial animals, with different parts that perform different essential functions—swimming, buoyancy, detecting and catching food, defence, digestion and reproduction.
b. Zoology. Designating animals or birds that live or breed in groups or assemblages of individuals of the same species; (formerly) esp. designating those, such as bees, that live in highly organized associations with cooperative breeding (now more usually called social: cf. social adj. 6b). Also: relating to or characterized by such a mode of life. Cf. colony n. 10a.
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1875 R. Patterson Fables Infidelity (rev. ed.) ii. 85 It were endless to attempt to exhibit the impossibilities of crossing the gaps..between the habits of the solitary and those of the gregarious, and those of the colonial insects and animals.
1925 C. H. Richardson Oviposition Response Insects (U.S. Dept. Agric., Bull. No. 1324) 10 The behavior of the ovipositing queen bee suggests that the response is largely determined by the tactile sense and this may also be true of other colonial insects.
1974 F. G. Evendon Let. 27 Aug. in Environm. Impact Statem. Convention for Conservation Antarctic Seals (U.S. Dept. of State) It is obvious that regulations need to be varied with the species, taking into full account the colonial habits of such species as the Weddell Seal.
1995 R. F. Johnston & M. Janiga Feral Pigeons xvi. 205 Pigeons are potentially food for many species of birds of prey, and colonial nesting is a better defense against these predators than solitary breeding.
2003 J. E. Zablotny in V. H. Resh & R. T. Cardé Encycl. Insects 1046/1 G. Eickwort and Wilson categorize most bark and ambrosia beetles as subsocial or colonial insects.
B. n.
1. An inhabitant of a colony or (now) former colony; esp. an inhabitant of a colony of the (former) British Empire. Cf. colonist n. 1b.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > colonist or settler > [noun] > inhabitant of colony
coloner1600
colonist1753
colonial1797
1797 H. McLean Enq. Nature & Causes Mortality St. Domingo iii. 220 This post therefore should be chiefly occupied by colonials.
1865 Fraser's Mag. Oct. 433 The colonials are as sensitive to home criticisms as the Yankees.
1885 J. A. Froude Oceana xviii He spoke very well of the rising generation of colonials.
1913 W. O. Lilley Reminisc. of Life in Brisbane 9 I had heard the term ‘bloke’ applied to a clergyman, but I was told that the word was not intended to be uncomplimentary, and that it was a common term used by young colonials, for dignitaries, both of Church and State.
2002 J. Cartwright White Lightning viii. 57 I feel my suit sticking to me. It is an English suit, never worn by colonials.
2021 menafn.com (Nexis) 8 Feb. There is a quiet movement among settler colonials in Australia and the US to critically examine their family histories.
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a. In specific elliptical uses.† (a) Australian and New Zealand. Beer or ale that is brewed in a colony for consumption within that colony, spec. one that contains non-traditional ingredients due to the difficulty of obtaining barley, and often considered to be of inferior quality. Cf. Compounds 2. Obsolete.
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1849 South Austral. (Adelaide) 10 July 218/6 To a ‘nobbler,’ or a ‘glass of colonial,’ he turns up his nose.
1852 Sydney Morning Herald 16 Aug. No man can open his mouth and swallow anything, even a glass of ‘colonial’, in a public-house under sixpence.
1869 Colonial Soc. (Sydney) 28 Jan. 3 Afterwards went into a public-house and ordered a pot of colonial.
1900 H. Lawson Over Sliprails 70 ‘Wal, I reckon you can build me your national drink. I guess I'll try it’. A long colonial was drawn for him.
(b) Philately. A postage stamp issued for use in a (former) colony.Also with modifier specifying the colonies in which the stamp could be used; cf. British colonial n.
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1865 J. M. Stourton Postage Stamp Forgeries following Addenda (advt.) Used Continentals and Colonials, mixed, 7s. 6d. per 1000.
1939 Pop. Sci. Monthly Feb. 39/1 (advt.) 100 stamps including triangle, airmails, commemoratives, pictorials, colonials, only 5c.
1944 Pop. Mech. May 43 a/1 (advt.) One and two cent approvals...British and French Colonials.
1969 Y. Carter Mr. Campion's Farthing 122 There could be a little something to come, but not before I see that Colonial.
2013 @StampsCollector 28 Dec. in twitter.com (accessed 20 Sept. 2021) 8 Old French Colonials 1892.
b. More generally: a thing made, used, or produced in a colony or (now) former colony.
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1868 Amer. Jrnl. Numismatics 2 94 Mr. Gorton exhibited several rare colonials in fine condition.
1896 Times 15 Oct. 13/3 There will be a heavy bill due to the colonists of Gibraltar for the..cessation of the exports from this country to Gibraltar of British goods and colonials.
1917 Mediterannean Pilot III. xii. 448 The imports are cotton and woolen goods, colonials, petroleum, and wine.
2016 Trav. & Leisure Close-Up (Nexis) 9 June The hoard, which consists of 7,083 coins, was discovered under the floorboards of a small shop... Mystery surrounds the massive hoard of colonials, as the reason behind the hoard's unlikely hiding place is still unknown.
3. Chiefly North American. A house built in a style of architecture characteristic of the period when a country was under colonial rule. Cf. Dutch colonial n., English colonial n., French colonial n.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > house of specific shape or style
hall-house1467
longhouse1643
bungalow1676
single housea1684
tower-house1687
villa1755
box1773
cottage orné1774
villarette1792
mews1805
cottage1808
terrace house1817
casita1822
villa dwelling1833
villa residence1833
box-house1846
six-roomer1853
terrace1854
tembe1860
moat house1871
parlour house1871
row house1871
salt-box1876
trullo1898
townhouse1900
colonial1903
semi1912
Cape Cod1916
bungaloid1927
semi-detached1928
ranchette1938
solar house1946
rambler1947
rancher1950
ranch1951
tunnel-back1957
sidesplit1958
two-up-and-two-downer1958
two-up two-down1958
semi-det1960
A-frame1963
townhouse1965
tri-level1965
link house1968
split1970
dormer bungalow1977
1903 Bay View Mag. (Detroit) Apr. 374/1 The mansion was one of those old and spacious colonials, with broad piazzas and in the midst of a magnificent park of oak, magnolia and laurel.
1965 H. van Siller Compl. Stranger (1966) 10 Lovely old white frame mansions, most of them authentic Colonials.
2000 N.Y. Times 31 Dec. xi. 2/3 4-bedroom, 2½-bath, new colonial; entry hall, dining room, family room, kitchen with morning room.
2015 N.Y. Times Mag. (Nexis) 1 Nov. (Late Ed.) 1 We saw a beautiful old colonial in Montclair, but the commute on New Jersey Transit would have taken more than an hour for my wife.
4. A member of a labour colony, penal colony, etc. rare.
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1906 Westm. Gaz. 20 July 3/1 It was a case of once a ‘colonial’ always ‘a colonial’, as the man employed on relief works is called.
2007 C. Kelly Children's World vii. 224 He and his fellows were ‘colonials’ in more than one sense: the denizens of a penal colony, but also Soviet counterparts to the morally ambiguous but entrepreneurial outlaws of American Wild West stories.
Phrases
Australian and New Zealand slang. my colonial (oath). Used in interjections expressing agreement or endorsement, or as a mild expletive. Cf. oath n. Phrases 3. Now archaic.
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1856 Bell's Life in Sydney 15 Nov. The friendly Swiss enquired whether they wanted beds and something to eat, and it was unnecessary to observe that when he answered ‘My colonial oath, we do’, they got all they required.
1873 J. C. F. Johnson Christmas on Carringa 6 If you was really to say..will you take a pint of sheaoak..I'd say, I'd say..my colonial!
1936 King Country Chron. 15 Aug. 2/7 Well, I'll be damned—My colonial oath!
1968 D. O'Grady Bottle of Sandwiches 30 My colonial…Sorry I'm a day late, but things kept croppin' up.
2005 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 17 July (Late ed.) 31 The horseman slapped a shilling on the bar and cried: ‘My colonial oath, I'm fair parched for a long-sleever!’
Compounds
C1. Forming adjectives with the sense ‘made or manufactured in a colony’, as in colonial manufactured, colonial made, etc.
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1805 Maryland Gaz. 13 June Business was extremely dull at Nantes—there was a total stagnation. Colonial produced pouring in from all parts of America and Lisbon. Coffee was 48 sous—cotton, dull.
1808 Sydney Gaz. 15 May The Mercury colonial built vessel..had not arrived when the Venus left.
1865 Punch in Canterbury 15 Apr. 3 Diggers, Station-holders, and Farmers supplied with the best colonial made boots and shoes cheap for cash.
1906 Westm. Gaz. 15 Jan. 15/3 Colonial-manufactured furniture is merely put together in Capetown.
1927 Evening Tel. & Post (Dundee) 19 Sept. (Late Extra ed.) The shopper can see displayed on the stand Colonial-produced articles.
1957 Canad. Jrnl. Econ. & Polit. Sci. 23 197 A definite decline in the British demand for colonial-built ships.
2019 P. Bandhu & T. G. Jacob Encountering Adivasi Question i. 13 A certain minimum of infrastructural facilities had to be built up for facilitating colonial plunder and developing the markets for colonial manufactured products.
C2. Australian and New Zealand (now historical). Designating an ale or beer brewed in a colony; spec. one that contains non-traditional ingredients due to the difficulty of obtaining barley, and often considered to be of inferior quality, as in colonial ale, colonial beer, etc. Cf. sense B. 2a(a).
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1823 M. Bacon in Sydney Gaz. 6 Feb. (advt.) Many People have advised me to advertise the good qualities of my Colonial Beer, but I cannot be led to do so—let it speak for itself.
1826 Hobart (Tasmania) Town Gaz. 11 Nov. This Morning—The brig Earl of Liverpool..for Sydney, with..4 tons of potatoes, 10 casks Colonial ale.., and 10 cannisters snuff from this Port.
1857 Illustr. Jrnl. Australasia III. 109 The young men nearly poisoned themselves with their first draught of colonial ale.
1867 J. K. Moillet Mary Ira 9 A glass of thick, saltish, mess called Colonial ale.
1886 D. M. Gane New S. Wales. & Victoria 51 The colonial beer, an insipid drink, is looked upon as poison by those who can afford a bottle of Bass.
1903 H. H. S. Pearse Hist. of Lumsden's Horse xvii. 307 We regaled ourselves with limited quantities of colonial stout in a vain endeavor to keep out the eternal rain.
1954 N. Bartlett Pearl Seekers 109 You could get drunk, at Cossack's other pub, on Colonial ale or ‘shypoo’ at sixpence the quart.
2018 @EmersonWBaker 2 Feb. in twitter.com (accessed 20 Sept. 2021) Butch from @EarthEagleBrews and I will be talking about brewing colonial ales and beers, then and now.
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colonial-born adj. Designating a person born in a colony.
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1803 R. Semple Walks & Sketches Cape Good Hope iii. 42 These may be reckoned the four principal stocks of the slaves of the Cape. The Malay, the native of the Mozambique and Malabar coasts, and the colonial-born slave.
1900 Daily News 7 Mar. 5/5 Colonial-born men led the rebels.
2014 B. Dawson In Eye of Beholder v. 81 Even colonial-born women were expected to dress appropriately in public.
colonial cringe n. originally and chiefly Australian and New Zealand the view or a belief that one's own national culture is inferior to that of a colonial power which formerly governed the country, esp. the United Kingdom.
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1960 Meanjin Dec. 459 The ‘colonial cringe’ is less pronounced. Book-buyers (and book-sellers) have by now pretty well accepted the local product without the kind of discrimination so harmful during the pre-war days.
1988 Sunday Mail (Queensland) (Nexis) 24 Jan. Australian life was debilitated by a colonial cringe that meant we regarded almost anything Australian as inevitably second rate.
2017 New Yorker 15 May 84/2 The Canadian experience was not free..of the ‘colonial cringe’ that bedevils so many countries overattached to the motherland.
colonial edition n. an edition of a book issued in a cheap binding for export to a colony (see quot. 1960).
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society > communication > book > edition > [noun] > other types of edition
critical edition1721
trade edition1819
colonial edition1825
share book1853
stall-edition1854
Aldine1862
library edition1869
Kelmscott1920
cheaps1930
quickie1933
1825 in W. Hilhouse Indian Notices Advice to Readers (front matter) The Author, at the pressing instigation of numerous friends, has been induced to print a small Colonial Edition, without Plates, in the interim attending the production of the complete Work, at home.
1907 B. M. Croker Company's Servant x. 92 The battered ‘colonial edition’ of a popular novel.
1960 G. A. Glaister Gloss. Bk. 76/1 Colonial editions, originally, editions of novels bought in sheets from English publishers by exporting firms who issued them in cheap bindings for sale in the Colonies. Subsequently, publishers produced their own colonial editions, bound in cheap boards, and with a title-page indicating that they were solely for export sale.
2001 Australian (Nexis) 4 Apr. 41 Australian booksellers kept the colonial edition alive long after it had fulfilled any particularly useful purpose for British publishers.
colonial goose n. Australian and New Zealand a roast cut of lamb or mutton (typically boned leg) stuffed with sage and onions.
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1863 Bell's Life in Sydney & Sporting Chron. 5 Dec. Colonial goose and cabbage.
1880 Adelaide Observer 7 Aug. 222/2 Miss Fidler is proceeding with her cookery classes, and includes in her delectable dishes ‘colonial goose’.
1982 D. Burton 200 Years NZ Cooking 111 Anzac hare. This simple meat loaf bears about as much resemblance to hare as colonial goose does to poultry, but Anzac hare it always has been, and Anzac hare it will remain.
2009 Gold Coast Bull. (Austral.) (Nexis) 21 Mar. 20 Kiwis like nothing more than to follow a few helpings of colonial goose with barrowloads of pavlova.
colonial oven n. Australian and New Zealand now historical a large wrought iron cooking appliance comprising an oven for baking and roasting with an open fire underneath, and an upper fire below an iron grill or bars for boiling and stewing (cf. colonial stove n.).
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1856 Argus (Melbourne) 31 Mar. 1/6 (advt.) Colonial oven Wanted, new or second-hand.
1928 B. Cronin Dragonfly 142 He drew some hot water from the kettle on the wide colonial oven.
1963 B. Pearson Coal Flat iv. 61 There was an old-fashioned open fireplace with a hot coal fire..with a colonial oven alongside it.
2008 Mercury (Hobart, Austral.) (Nexis) 14 Apr. 18 Bridget set up a colonial oven in New Norfolk and people of the town were able to put their dinner in there for one penny.
colonial power n. a nation with colonies or overseas territories, esp. prior to widespread decolonization. Now chiefly historical.
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society > authority > power > [noun] > powerful person or body > powerful state or nation > types of
ocean power1713
colonial power1801
sea power1849
occupying power1866
superpower1911
1801 L. Goldsmith tr. Comte d'Hautrive State French Republic iv. 122 In America, England has held the first ranks of colonial power: she is still the only colonial power there.
1907 Times 18 Jan. 3/4 The German Empire, as a colonial Power, must not only promote civilization in the colonies, but must also govern and must secure the respect of the natives as well as the safety of the settlers.
2016 Namibian Sun (Nexis) 27 Dec. Other former colonial powers have been deeply reluctant to acknowledge the violence associated with their imperial history.
colonial stove n. Australian and New Zealand now chiefly historical a large wrought iron cooking appliance comprising an oven for baking and roasting with an open fire underneath, and an upper fire below an iron grill or bars for boiling and stewing; = colonial oven n.
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1851 Lyttelton Times 15 Mar. 1/2 (advt.) To sell by auction..a new Colonial Stove.
1883 ‘A Lady’ Facts: or, Exper. in N.Z. ii. 8 Small cottages of four rooms with Colonial stoves.
1940 N.Z. Herald 16 Dec. 10 Almost every unit uses a ‘colonial oven’ that stands in the open air and looks like an incinerator.
2000 Herald Sun (Melbourne) (Nexis) 1 Apr. m16 The original kitchen, complete with colonial stove and cellar, is in a detached building at the rear.
colonial-style adj. of a style characteristic of or associated with the period during which a country was governed by a colonial power (cf. sense A. 4b).
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1883 in F. T. Camp Draftsman's Man. (new ed.) 44 (advt.) Containing 44 plates of Queen Anne and colonial style villas and cottages.
1985 M. Atwood Handmaid's Tale (1986) xvi. 93 The large white canopy of Serena Joy's outsized colonial-style four-poster bed, suspended like a sagging cloud above us.
2009 New Straits Times (Malaysia) (Nexis) 28 Aug. 2 The morphing of their sprawling elegant colonial style mansions into sleek 21st century skyscrapers..suggests that a new lifestyle has arrived.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022).
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