Swabe

English

Etymology

Compare German Schwabe.

Noun

Swabe (plural Swabes)

  1. (archaic, rare) A Swabian.
    • 1745, Thomas Salmon, Modern History Or the Present State of All Nations, volume 2, page 29:
      A Brandenburgher will hardly understand a Misnian, or a Swabe either of them.
    • (Can we date this quote?), A Peep at Bosnia, in Sharpe's London Magazine, volume 2/3:
      […] the same horse had once carried two travelling Swabes from Kosteinitza to Sarajewo […]

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