Usania en · PROPN
Pronunciation
- /juːˈseɪni.ə/
Etymology
USA + -an + -ia, parallel to Araucania, etc.; or a backformation from Usanian
Meanings
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(nonstandard) The United States of America.
Burton, writing at a time when homophobia was as common in much of Europe as it remains in parts of the peculiarly Puritan Usania, felt he could not end his defense on a general note.
2007, Robin D. Gill, The Woman Without a Hole—& Other Risky Themes from Old Japanese Poems, page 211:Where but in Usania would a state delegation appear at a national convention pledged to support a man known to be ineligible for election?
1971, Norman Ward, “Where But in Usania”, in John Harold Redekop, editor, The star-spangled beaver, page 3: