Corsican
['kɔ:sikən]
Definition
(adj.) of or relating to or characteristic of Corsica or its people .
Editor: Solomon--From WordNet
Examples
- This was quite human, very clannish and Corsican, and it helps us to understand just how he valued his position and the opportunities before him. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Such a Corsican wretch as that withstand the armies of Europe and the genius of the immortal Wellington! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- You're a military man, he went on; I ask you, Bill Dobbin, could any man ever have speculated upon the return of that Corsican scoundrel from Elba? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Any cursed alien blood, Jew, Corsican, or Gypsy. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- From his mother he had acquired a romantic Corsican patriotism. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He died the death of a hero, sir, fighting against the Corsican tyrant. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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