Sudeticadj.
/suːˈdeɪtɪk/ Now rare.
Of or relating to the Sudeten region of Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic).
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1907 Muret-Sanders Encyclopaedic Eng.–German & German–Eng. Dict. II. 710/3 Sudetan..Gebirge,..Sudetic Mountains.
1928 C. Dawson Age of Gods xii. 270 A movement of population was certainly taking place at this period, for the skulls of the Lengyel people belong not to the old ‘Sudetic’ type of the Danube region, but are distinctively Nordic.
1928 P. Selver tr. Benes My War Mem. xix. 481 The Austrian Minister..sent..the..Allied Governments a protest against the attempt to retain the Sudetic Germans within Czechoslovakia.
1934 R. C. Priebsch & W. E. Collinson German Lang. i. ii. 37 Of less moment..are..the fair broad-heads of East Baltic type on the eastern periphery and a very primitive strain, called by Günther Inner Asiatic or Sudetic (from the Sudetes).
1938 Manch. Guardian 12 May 6/3 It is not clear what is meant by the ‘extreme limit’ to which the Czecho-Slovak Government is asked to go in its ‘concessions’ to the Sudetic German minority.
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