Gaditanon.adj.

1697 J. Savage tr. A. de Guevara Spanish Lett. xiii. 90 The Romans accounted four sorts of People in Spain hard to Subdue, viz. The Meridones of Merida, the Gaditani [Sp. Gaditanos] of Cadiz, the Saguntini.., and [the] Numantians.

1775 Archaeologia 3 358 The Carthaginians, or at least the Gaditani, certainly were there [sc. in Ireland].

1793 Beawes's Civil Hist. Spain & Portugal I. v. 108 The Phoenicians..traded to Cadiz, and in the Red-Sea, either by themselves, or accompanied by the Gaditanos and Hebrews.

1839 G. Dennis Summer in Andalucia I. iv. 100 The Gaditanos have also the character of being gay, frank, hospitable, and courteous to strangers.

a1855 E. Stuart-Wortley Sweet South (1856) I. ii. 31 The author..is not, I believe, a Gaditano, nor even an Andalusian, but a native of some other part of Spain.

1926 T. P. Terry Guide to Cuba i. v. 29 While the andaluz,..the gaditano and the murciano employ the lisp, the Cuban..rarely uses it.

1971 Mnemosyne 24 118 It is not clear why he does not think of a Semitic or Iberian tradition when speaking of the ideas of the Gaditani, because Cadiz was a Phoenician colony.

2014 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 14 Jan. 14 With a sense of humour the Gaditanos are famous for, he presents a dish that appears to be a small green chilli pepper.

1953 J. Reynolds Fabulous Spain 138 Small brown Gaditano boys..sit on the seawall.

1984 Americas 40 445 Careful review of the gaditano press..would have given more substance to Anna's major argument.

2010 Irish Times 17 Apr. c4/6 We drained our glasses of cava and watched garrulous Gaditano life taking place around us.