Scandinavianadj.n.

1784 E. Jerningham (title) The Rise and Progress of the Scandinavian Poetry.

1864 D. Cook in Once a Week 26 Nov. 627/2 The flowing flaxen Scandinavian locks which Mr. Fechter's picturesque Hamlet has brought upon the boards.

1959 R. Condon Manchurian Candidate ii. 19 All of the furniture was made of blond wood in mutated, modern Scandinavian design.

1964 L. Deighton Funeral in Berlin vi. 42 There was Scandinavian-style East German furniture in the room.

1968 S. B. Hough Sweet Sister Seduced xxviii. 163 He looked around the room, at the Scandinavian chairs, at the window curtains, and the Hi-fi in the corner.

1972 ‘C. Fremlin’ Appointment with Yesterday xi. 83 Visions of colourful teenage rooms in the Sunday colour-supplements, with Scandinavian wood window-seats, and bright cushions.

1979 M. Eden Document of Last Nazi xxix. 171 A neat, cold-looking room, with..Scandinavian furniture.

1830 W. Scott Ivanhoe (new ed.) II. xviii. 335 The architecture of the ancient Scandinavians.

1766 J. Cleland Way to Things by Words 63 A sense which it also specifically has in the old Scandinavian.

1822 tr. C. Malte-Brun Universal Geogr. I. 568 The Mœso-Gothic,..the Icelandic and modern Scandinavian, in its two principal dialects the Swedish and the Danish, constitute the Gothic branch.

1888 J. Wright tr. K. Brugmann Elem. Compar. Gram. Indo-Germanic Lang. I. 10 Norse (or Scandinavian)..down to the Viking period (800–1000 a.d.) was practically a single language.

1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. iv. 59 While the language of the Lombards seems to have been of the West Germanic type, the others, including Gothic, were closer to Scandinavian.

1954 M. A. Pei & F. Gaynor Dict. Linguistics 148 North Germanic, a branch of the Germanic group of the Indo-European family of languages; it comprises Icelandic, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Faroese and Gotlandic (or Gutnian). Also called Scandinavian.

1966 W. P. Lehmann in H. Birnbaum & J. Puhvel Anc. Indo-European Dial. 18 The occurrence of a third singular form without -t in the three coastal dialects of West Germanic and in Scandinavian gives evidence of interrelations between these dialects subsequent to the earliest dialect division of Proto-Germanic.

1978 W. White in W. Whitman Daybooks & Notebooks I. 69 Rasmus B. Anderson..Professor of Scandinavian at the University of Wisconsin.

1864 Daily Tel. 11 May During the first quarter, however, of the present century, there was a national reaction in favour of Scandinavianism.

1907 Academy 5 Oct. 962/1 In plastic art there is a certain Scandinavianism visible, which has lasted longest in Iceland.