Transylvanian

So, what are we to make of a breed of chicken called the Transylvanian Naked Neck?

Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog 2009

Perhaps because they don't have that "Transylvanian" story behind them.

Archive 2004-05-01 Julie D. 2004

Perhaps because they don't have that "Transylvanian" story behind them.

Monster Mash Julie D. 2004

Recognizing our unique status as partway-in, partway-out of the Christian tradition, the editors write: “In Unitarianism two separate strands are noticeable: one, which is biblicist, resisting dogmatic statements which seem to go beyond biblical warrant, has modified confessions about Christ, but kept contact with the main Christian tradition such as Transylvanian Unitarianism and some British and American Unitarian churches; the other is rationalist, endeavoring to construct a universal ‘rational’ religion in which the miraculous plays no part” 113.

Philocrites: Unitarian Universalism: In search of a definition 2003

His suave, sophisticated nobleman, poised for the Transylvanian puncture, begins with the hapless Renfield, the realtor who only meant to rent a castle to the Count but, instead, turns into a wannabe vampire himself.

8 Fictional Vampires Who Achieved Reel Immortality | Fandomania 2010

So it's no surprise to see Modern Family undergo a Transylvanian transformation for its big Halloween episode.

Modern Family Fright Fest! 2010

It said in a statement that the MiG-21 Lancer went down, instantly killing the pilots, near the Transylvanian town of Campia Turzii and that the crew was on a weather reconnaissance flight before taking part in a pilot instruction flight.

World Watch 2010

The downtown area of Brasov, Romania, a Transylvanian city of about 300,000 people, is jammed with the branches of at least a dozen different foreign banks, mostly from euro-zone countries.

Europe's Banks Retreat From the East David Enrich 2011

I did, however, snag a ticket to the new Off-Broadway "Dracula," partly because the ever-excellent George Hearn is playing Van Helsing, Buffy's spiritual great-grandfather, and partly because Thora Birch, who was so fine in "Ghost World" and "American Beauty," was supposed to play Lucy Seward, the chief recipient of the sanguinary favors of the Transylvanian count Michel Altieri.

The Kids Are All Wrong Terry Teachout 2011

Alas, there is no evading the sad fact that Mr. Altieri, a pupil of Luciano Pavarotti who is said to be very big in Italy, is a hopelessly uncharismatic Dracula fitted out with a ponytail, a rented tux and a faux-Transylvanian accent whose mismatched vowels sound as though they'd been chosen by spinning the Wheel of Fortune.

The Kids Are All Wrong Terry Teachout 2011