Sarkesen.adj.
/sɑːˈkiːz/ A. n.
a. collective. Also Sarkees. The inhabitants of the Channel Island of Sark.
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Manxman1516
Scillonian1651
Manx1688
Jerseyman1825
Sarkese1845
Manxwoman1974
1845 G. W. James Sark Guide vii. 78 Most of the Sarkese now manufacture their own lobster pots... The Sarkese certainly love money even to a fault.
1928 L. E. Hale tr. J. L. V. Cachemaille Island of Sark 105 This..harbour..has a history of its own, interesting to the Sarkese, and also to the tourist.
1935 E. Platt Sark as I found It iv. 29 The Sarkees adore litigation.
1958 J. W. Day Lady Houston ix. 127 No other race of people but the Sarkese speak it [sc. ‘Norman-French’] today.
1965 ‘J. Christopher’ Wrinkle in Skin vi. 71 He had been one of the Sarkees engaged in the carriage business.
1978 Times Lit. Suppl. 26 May 572/5 Some of the Sarkese still reproach her with fraternization with the Germans.
b. The language of Sark, a variety of Norman French.
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Norman French1605
Normana1649
Anglo-Normanic1707
Anglo-Norman1818
Sarkese1957
1957 Sunday Times 10 Feb. 3/8 The debates in the Parlement are conducted in Sarkese which is apparently a slightly modernised version of Ancient Norman.
B. adj.
Of or pertaining to Sark.
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Sarkese1882
1882 D. F. S. Channel Islands 77 The kind-hearted Sarkese thought the sentence too severe... The good Sarkese women kept her company.
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