Bahiann.adj.

1805 T. Lindley Voy. Brasil 259 The Bahians have permission to import their own slaves.

1853 Daily News 15 Sept. 5/4 The minister himself, a Bahian, is of course suspected of partiality to his own province.

1868 Overland Monthly Oct. 349 Bahians are mostly stay-at-home people, and know little of other countries.

1939 Econ. Geogr. 15 200 Cacao had all but faded from the thoughts and occupations of the Bahians.

1972 S. S. Walker Ceremonial Spirit Possession in Afr. & Afro-Amer. iii. 57 The Bahians do not live in as close everyday interaction with their deities as the Haitians.

2004 Independent on Sunday (Nexis) 1 Aug. 31 It is a white plate of greyish gloopy goo that only a Bahian could love, served with a side dish of rice.

1809 A. Grant Hist. Brazil xi. 261 Some of the Bahian merchants, more than usually enterprising, have lately begun to send out vessels.

1842 D. Burn Plays, & Fugitive Pieces I. 403 Equipped for our morning's walk in a handsomely braided rifle-green jacket, I deemed it quite good enough for the pit of the Bahian play-house.

1874 Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 44 288 This part of the stream is full of rapids, the greatest being the Salto Grande (Great Fall), which forms the frontier line of the Bahian province.

1909 Times 16 Dec. 6 He dealt with the districts in which Brazilian diamonds are found, mentioning that to-day the Bahian diamond fields took premier position.

1958 J. J. Considine New Horizons in Lat. Amer. i. iv. 41 This Bahian folk cult undoubtedly came from Africa.

2005 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 28 May a16/5 The set began with the twang of an invisible berimbau, the Bahian percussion instrument.