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  • noun Plural form of Rumanian.

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Examples

  • Merely by their uniforms it is not easy to distinguish the Rumanians from the Russians from the air.

    Stuka Pilot Rudel, Hans-Ulrich 1973

  • The Rumanians are the matrix of the Russian left flank, and if, through lack of support and the necessities of life, they go out of the war, the solidity of the Russian left is destroyed and the capture of Odessa probably foreordained.

    World's War Events, Vol. II 1902

  • see this is print ? eh, since 1916 the Rumanians are the "good guys" for the British press only when they are needed to for some suicide mission such as defending a 1200 km front line and mobilizing 20% of the male population, so I hope I won't see this in press.

    Afstan: Romania one of the six doing combat 2007

  • The captain would be able to hire whole crowds of Rumanians, Rumanian would be spoken everywhere, and perhaps everything might then indeed run more smoothly.

    The Metamorphosis, in The Penal Colony,and Other Stories Franz Kafka 2000

  • Ethnic Rumanians are, after all, descendants of the original Roman = white Western European settlers in what was once Dacia.

    The audacity of distraction 2009

  • The border police here are proactive not only at the borders but in large urban areas where the mostly illegal Albanian, Bulgarian, and Rumanians tend to congregate.

    Guns Kill People ( Shock News) Newmania 2007

  • It must be remembered that the Belgica's company was as cosmopolitan as it could be -- Belgians, Frenchmen, Americans, Norwegians, Swedes, Rumanians, Poles, etc. -- and it was the business of the second in command to keep all these men together and get the best possible work out of them.

    The South Pole~ The History of the South Pole 2009

  • That does not hold water, since if you include Portuguese exclusively based on this criterion then you surely should include Italians, French, many Swiss, even Rumanians and many others.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Justice Cardozo as “Hispanic” or “Latino”: 2009

  • The BBC must have known these people were Roma since, had they been ethnic Rumanians, they would have been, at most, victims of xenophobia or - if they were Catholics - religious prejudice, not "racism".

    The audacity of distraction 2009

  • The BBC reporter tugged at our heartstrings by disclosing that one of the Rumanians was born just 5 days ago.

    The audacity of distraction 2009

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