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- noun An inhabitant or a resident of the city of
Berlin ,Germany .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The Berlinese have much to do and undo before they can rightfully call their city a _Weltstadt_.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876 Various
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Berlinese and taught them the advisability of laying by for a rainy day.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876 Various
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Berlinese, whose vernacular is strongly tinged with _Plattdeutsch_ forms from the lower Elbe.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876 Various
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The chief attraction to the visitor, as well as a permanent magnet to the patriotic Berlinese, who come hither in whole families, is the "Hall of Fame," consisting of three sections, all splendid in mosaic floors and massive marble pillars, and adorned with sculpture and fine historical frescos.
In and Around Berlin Minerva Brace Norton
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"I am glad you noted that," said Niemann in his broad Berlinese.
Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time Henry Edward Krehbiel 1888
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He was a Hanoverian, and his accent was then, I believe, the standard, though the Berlinese is now the accepted pronunciation.
My Literary Passions William Dean Howells 1878
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He was a Hanoverian, and his accent was then, I believe, the standard, though the Berlinese is now the accepted pronunciation.
Literature and Life (Complete) William Dean Howells 1878
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Parisians talk French and the Berlinese talk German, and from St. Petersburg went to Cairo by way of Delhi.
Equality Edward Bellamy 1874
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Berlinese see that you are at last amongst them, shall they acknowledge that you are worthy to be honored and worshipped.
Berlin and Sans-Souci; or Frederick the Great and his friends 1843
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Murhard, the publisher of the _Moniteur Westphalien_, K.J. Schütz, the author of a work upon Napoleon, the Berlinese J.w, Saul Asher, the author of a scandalous work, entitled "Germanomanie," and of a slanderous article in Zschokke's Miscellanies against Prussia,
Germany from the Earliest Period Volume 4 Wolfgang Menzel 1835
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