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  • noun Plural form of Cape Codder.

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Examples

  • In the Boston papers, Rose had read stories about Cape Codders who had been forced to cash out and move to places like Maine and Florida, even descendants of the great Cape families, the very blood and bone, being forced into exile.

    Some Assembly Required Lynn Kiele Bonasia 2008

  • My mixer, my dough divider, my retarder, and my oven were shipped from Cleveland, but all the labor was performed by Cape Codders.

    Isabel’s Bed Elinor Lipman 1995

  • My mixer, my dough divider, my retarder, and my oven were shipped from Cleveland, but all the labor was performed by Cape Codders.

    Isabel’s Bed Elinor Lipman 1995

  • My mixer, my dough divider, my retarder, and my oven were shipped from Cleveland, but all the labor was performed by Cape Codders.

    Isabel’s Bed Elinor Lipman 1995

  • She carried a round wooden receptacle -- what Cape Codders used to call a

    Fair Harbor Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

  • He writes about things which happen inside The Beltway which should be of vital interest to Cape Codders.

    CapeCodToday Blog Chowder Dick Farley 2010

  • A hurricane is usually tracked by Cape Codders as it is generated off the coast of Africa and strengthens as it moves over the warm waters of the Caribbean and turns northward and ravages the southern coast and heads toward our peninsula.

    CapeCodToday Blog Chowder 2010

  • He writes about things which happen inside The Beltway which should be of vital interest to Cape Codders.

    CapeCodToday Blog Chowder 2009

  • The black night, the quiet, the loneliness, the salt spray on our faces and the wash of the waves alongside, the high singsong wail from lookout to lookout -- it WAS a voice from the past, the call of generations of sea-beaten, weather-worn, brave old Cape Codders to their descendants, reminding the latter of a dead and gone profession and of thousands of fine, old ships which had plowed the ocean in the days when "Plutonias" were unknown.

    Kent Knowles: Quahaug Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

  • Boats, water, fishing . . . they’re as common as breathing to us Cape Codders, and now that you’re becoming one, too, you have to get used to it all or risk forever being known as an outsider.

    Melody V.C. Andrews 1996

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