Rhinelandern.

1608 E. Grimeston tr. J. F. Le Petit Gen. Hist. Netherlands i. 46 He appointed..Philip of Wassenare, and the Seignior of Theylinghen to commaund the Rhynlanders [Fr. Rhinlanders], and he himself went into Zeeland.

1798 Anecd. Incursion French Republicans 123 The brave Rhinelanders defended their persons and their property with great resolution.

1861 Times 7 Oct. 6/3 What have the pious Belgians or the warm-hearted Rhinelanders..done in defence of the Pope's authority?

1864 J. Bryce Holy Rom. Empire vi. 121 The fall in a.d. 1477 of the great principality..was seen with pleasure by the Rhinelanders.

1928 Daily Tel. 27 Mar. 14/2 The veto placed by the Coblenz High Commission on the singing by the Rhinelanders of the ‘Wacht am Rhein’.

1977 ‘R. West’ Celebration 528 ‘From Frankfurt!’ exclaimed my mother happily. ‘You are a Rhinelander!’

1995 Australian 8 Mar. (Brisbane ed.) 15/2 Rhinelanders have kept these memories alive but have rarely spoken openly about their resentment.

1905 B. P. Coates tr. F. A. Zorn Gram. Art of Dancing xvi. 234 In certain of the Rhine countries there is danced, under the name of the ‘Bavarian Polka’, a combination which in England..is called the ‘Scotch Polka’, and which in Bavaria is known as the ‘Rheinländer’.

1912 A. Huxley Let. 13 May (1969) 41 There was a gingerbeer and other beer stall and a dancing floor where about fifty peasants in weird Hessian costume were dancing what I learnt was a Rhinelander, which looks like a mixture between a polka and a two-step.

1938 B. Schönberg tr. C. Sachs World Hist. Dance vii. 436 The Rheinländer or the Bavarian polka, in contrast to the galop, is a slow polka.

1953 J. Lawson European Folk Dance xii. 116 Another polka-like step is called the Rheinländer and has an attractive zig-zag pattern.

1994 D. Guterson Snow Falling on Cedars vii. 68 Tourists from Seattle poured forth from the excursion steamers to perform the Svenska polka, the Rhinelander, the schottische, and the hambone.