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  • noun an inhabitant of Lapland, a Sami

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Examples

  • 'Why, Sir, he must either mean the word Laplander in a very extensive sense, or may mean a voluntary degradation of himself.

    Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

  • 'Why, sir, he must either mean the word Laplander in a very extensive sense, or may mean a voluntary degradation of himself.

    The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. James Boswell 1767

  • •* Why, fii ', he muft either mean the word Laplander ih a very ex - tcnfive fenfe, or may mean a voluntary degra - dation of himfdf.

    The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL. D ... 1785

  • ‘Why, sir, he must either mean the word Laplander in a very extensive sense, or may mean a voluntary degradation of himself.

    Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides 2006

  • The season was advancing, still the captain of the "Laplander," anxious to get a full ship, cruised backwards and forwards in the hopes of killing one fish more.

    Archibald Hughson An Arctic Story William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

  • They are rescued by another whaling ship, the "Laplander", but this in turn is beset by the ice and broken to splinters.

    Archibald Hughson An Arctic Story William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

  • That dreaded disease, the scurvy, produced by salt provisions and want of vegetable diet, broke out among the crew; more than half were laid up by it, and unable to quit their beds; the good captain himself was also taken ill -- he had been long suffering from a disease caught when the ship was first entrapped by the ice, and when it was expected that she would be crushed to pieces, as the "Laplander" had been.

    Archibald Hughson An Arctic Story William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

  • It relied heavily on evidence from a secret polar informant nicknamed "curve snowball," who claimed to be an elf but who officials later discovered was an alcoholic Laplander with a hormone deficiency.

    Aemilia Scott: President Bush Stays the Course on North Pole Relations 2008

  • Except when designers use “traditional” Aztec or Mayan or Mexican or Laplander or etc. etc. prints in their “ethnic” designs.

    MORE “ETHNIC” FASHION » Sociological Images 2008

  • Universities should try to recruit male Laplander professors, especially those who got their undergraduate degrees from American schools.

    Recruiting Laplanders as Professors Richard Nokes 2006

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