Andalusianadj.n.

1612 T. Shelton tr. Cervantes Don Quixote (1619) i. ii. 12 The Oast thought he had called him a Castellano, or Constable,..whereas he was indeede an Andaluzian.

1740 P. Pineda New Dict., Spanish & Eng. at Andalùz, The Castilians, who have no good opinion of the Andaluzians.

1823 Byron Don Juan: Canto XIII xxiii. p. 66 And Juan, like a true-born Andalusian, Could back a horse.

1839 G. Dennis Summer in Andalucia II. xvi. 385 This failing of the Andalucians betrays itself in many ways.

1887 Encycl. Brit. XXII. 351/1 The word ‘dialect’ is still more appropriately applied to Andalusian than either to Asturian or Navarrese-Aragonese.

1900 J. D. M. Ford in Studies & Notes in Philol. & Lit. VII. 1 Andalusian and other dialect peculiarities are only incidentally concerned.

1911 J. D. M. Ford Old Spanish Readings p. vii, Andalusian does not differ radically enough from Castilian to oblige us to regard it as a separate dialect.

1936 W. J. Entwistle Spanish Lang. vi. 220 Since 1600..there has been no ‘correct’ Andalusian, and the dialect has gathered to itself all current vulgarisms.

1854 Poultry Chron. 1 101 Several so-called Andalusians, bred by a Minorca cock out of a Maltese hen... The Andalusian fowls were introduced to the notice of amateurs by Mr. Taylor, of Shepherd's Bush.

1868 C. Darwin Variations Animals & Plants I. iv. 105 Various allied sub-breeds [of rabbit] are reared on the Continent, such as the so-called Andalusian, which is said to have a large head with a round forehead, and to attain a greater size than any other kind.

1879 Cassell's Family Mag. Apr. 274/2 The experiment was once tried of fattening a youthful Andalusian [rabbit] entirely on clover hay.

1920 Discovery July 200/2 This form of fowl is bluish-black with black lacing, and is called the Blue Andalusian.

1924 R. Kipling Debits & Credits (1926) 229 The fifth bull rushed out—an unthinking black Andalusian.