New Orleanianadj.n.
/ˌnjuː ɔːˈliːnɪən/, U.S. /ˌn(j)u ˌɔrˈliniən/ A. adj.
Of or characteristic of New Orleans. rare.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of North America > native or inhabitant of U.S.A. > [adjective] > towns or cities
Bostonian1698
Chicagoese1855
New Orleanian1855
Chicagoan1861
Cantabrigian1887
Angeleno1909
Los Angeleno1960
1855 De Bow's Rev. Apr. 456 The historical enumeration of New Orleanian epidemics, to be at all satisfactory, would occupy too much space.
1998 Times-Picayune (New Orleans) (Nexis) 1 May l48 We like Clancy's, because it's so New Orleanian. They take special care with the preparation of the food.
B. n.
A native or inhabitant of New Orleans. Cf. Orleanian n.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of North America > native or inhabitant of U.S.A. > [noun] > other towns or cities
Bostonian1682
Philadelphian1744
Bostonese1785
Nantucketer1788
Chicagoan1851
Angeleno1857
New Orleanian1862
bean-eater1867
Chicagoese1868
Los Angeleno1871
San Franciscan1875
Los Angelena1883
Angelena1905
Orleanian1935
1862 Continental Monthly Sept. 351/1 The unenviable position in which Howard Staunton had placed himself by keeping out of the lists through evident fear of the New-Orleanian.
1948 Times-Picayune (New Orleans) 5 Dec. 11/2 What should New Orleanians do about their protest?
1954 L. Armstrong L. Armstrong Story (MS, Louis Armstrong House Museum) 155 As we New Orleanians expresses it, he was very ‘Puney’.
1995 New Republic 21 Aug. 15/1 On a front row of folding seats sat a group of elderly black New Orleanians, veterans of Moon Landrieu's crusade to integrate city government.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.n.1855