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outlandisher en · NOUN

Etymology

From outlandish + -er.

Meanings

  1. (obsolete) Foreigner; outlander.
    • Hollanders, Zelanders, Scots, French, Weſterne men, Northren men, beſides all the hundreds and wapentakes nine miles compaſſe, fetch the beſt of their viands and mangery from her market. For ten weeks together this rabble rout of outlandiſhers are billetted with her, yet in all that while the rate of no kinde of food is raiſed, nor the plenty of their markets one pinte of butter rebated, aud ^([sic]) at the ten weekes end, when the campe is broken vp, no impreſſion of any dearth left, but rather more ſtore then before. 1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, page 6:

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