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  • noun Plural form of Roumanian.

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Examples

  • Then suddenly, on Sunday, November 3, the Roumanians, that is the Roumanians living in the country, made attacks on many villages, and the Roumanians of Transylvania acted in a similar fashion.

    The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 Henry Baerlein 1917

  • The Roumanians are a Romance people, like the French and Italians, and they have hitherto been regarded as a Balkan extension of the Triple Alliance.

    The Balkan Wars: 1912-1913 Third Edition Jacob Gould Schurman 1898

  • Albanians, Kosovans, Roumanians, Bulgarians, Macedonians etc. A relict of the Ottoman Empire and Muslim for all that.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • These bankers were warned early on that it was better to operate "diplomatically," i.e. behind closed doors, than for Jews to have mass meetings — rallies, which would piss off the Russians and Roumanians who were persecuting my ancestors.

    How the Jewish Lobby Helped Save My Family 2007

  • I should call the Great War an Act of God done through the French, through the English, through the Russians, Serbs, Roumanians, Italians and Americans.

    Chesterton on the Great War 2005

  • The more questions the Roumanians asked, the more I praised England; the climate, the scenery, the art, the literature, the laws — everything in England was perfect.

    Down and Out in Paris and London 2004

  • On the journey I fell in with a couple of Roumanians, mere children, who were going to England on their honeymoon trip.

    Down and Out in Paris and London 2004

  • Was the architecture in England good? the Roumanians asked.

    Down and Out in Paris and London 2004

  • I saw the Roumanians, too polite to say anything, cocking their eyes at the hotel.

    Down and Out in Paris and London 2004

  • The Roumanians were wild, and wanted me right or wrong to take out the box and fling it in the river.

    Dracula 2003

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