Morlachianadj.n.

1778 tr. A. Fortis Trav. into Dalmatia 83 Simplicity, and want of order..form..the principal character of the Morlacchian poetry [It. racconti poetici Morlacchi].

1910 J. Beddoe Memories of Eighty Years viii. 205 A Morlachian sailor from near Ragusa, whom I was trying to cure of gangrene of the lung.

1922 D. H. Low in tr. Ballads of Marko Kraljević Introd. p. xii In 1775 a translation by Werthes of the Morlacchian section was published at Berne.

2003 www.ceu.hu 3 Jan. (O.E.D. Archive) Eco-history of the Morlachian Way of Life in the Second Half of the 18h Century and the First Half of the 19th Century.

1806 W. Scott Let. 23 July (1932) I. 310 I enclose you the beginning of a war song imitated from the Morlachian.

1859 W. E. Aytoun & T. Martin in tr. J. W. von Goethe Poems & Ballads 103 This beautiful poem, purporting to be a translation from the Morlachian, was first printed in Herder's admirable collection of ballads.

1813 tr. A.-L.-G. de Staël Germany I. 350 His poetry easily assimilates itself with foreign countries; he seizes..all that pleases in the national songs of each nation, he becomes, when he chooses it, a Greek, an Indian, or a Morlachian [Fr. un morlaque].

a1827 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) XVII. 534/2 The upper parts of the country [sc. Dalmatia] are peopled by a different class, called Morlachians.