Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A native of Holland or of the Netherlands.
- noun In paper manufacturing, a beating-engine or beater; a Holland beater. See
beating-engine .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun A native or one of the people of Holland; a Dutchman.
- proper noun A very hard, semi-glazed, green or dark brown brick, which will not absorb water; -- called also,
Dutch clinker .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Somebody from
Holland . - noun A very hard, semi-glazed, green or dark brown
brick , which will not absorb water.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a native or inhabitant of Holland
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Examples
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Curator Stacy Hollander is selecting star quilts for a separate exhibit called "Super Stars" to open in the museum's satellite display space opposite Lincoln Center.
Kate Kelly: American Quilts as Art as Well as Documents of Politics and History Kate Kelly 2010
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Hollander is stupidity personified for replacing Howard with DLR.
Death pool: David Lee Roth and Joel Hollander « BuzzMachine 2006
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Bellatin’s work, first published in Spanish in 1999 and making its first American appearance in a translation by Kurt Hollander, is about as allegorical as they come.
Book Review: Beauty Salon by Mario Bellatin « A Progressive on the Prairie 2009
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Bellatin’s work, first published in Spanish in 1999 and making its first American appearance in a translation by Kurt Hollander, is about as allegorical as they come.
A Progressive on the Prairie » Book Review: Beauty Salon by Mario Bellatin » Print 2009
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If you read that paragraph fast and inattentively, and if you haven’t ever read Jay Wright, it sounds like Hollander is saying that Mexicans and West Africans have no literature today.
A mess of errors : Stephen Burt : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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Jolter no sooner perceived the Hollander was a Jew, than he entered into an investigation of the Hebrew tongue, in which he was a connoisseur; and the doctor at the same time attacked the mendicant on the ridiculous maxims of his order, together with the impositions of priestcraft in general, which, he observed, prevailed so much among those who profess the Roman Catholic religion.
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The Hollander is a very conservative individual, and therefore some curious customs still prevail among the peasant and working classes in the
Dutch Life in Town and Country P. M. Hough
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For workshops that coincide with the exhibit, postage-stamp-size pieces of clothing are put into a machine called a Hollander beater that pulverizes the fiber into pulp and converts it into heavy paper.
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The statute of limitations on a case such as Hollander's is two years, meaning she would have had to file back in 1990, instead of in 2005 when she actually filed her complaint.
No Cash For Little James Brown Jr In James Brown’s Will 2007
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But I found time, before I left the "Hollander," to charter a crazy caicque, to carry me to Scutari, intending to present Dr. F---- 's letter to Miss Nightingale.
Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands Mary Seacole
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