down-easter
Americannoun
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a full-rigged ship built in New England in the late 19th century, usually of wood and relatively fast.
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a native or inhabitant of Maine.
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a native or inhabitant of New England.
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Canadian. a native or resident of the Atlantic Provinces.
Etymology
Origin of down-easter
Example Sentences
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And with amazing, quick changes, she can be a featherbrained society woman, a bewildered immigrant, a spare, porch-sitting down-easter, a whole international procession of visitors to an Italian church.
From Time Magazine Archive
George Huntington Hartford, a "down-easter" born at Augusta, Me., went to Manhattan before the Civil War and there operated a modest hide and leather business from his store on Vesey street.
From Time Magazine Archive
The worthy down-easter buttoned his coat more tightly around him, and looking up to the moon replied, "It's a whistler, Captain; and 15 nothing can live comfortably out of blankets to-night."
From Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year by Hartwell, E. C. (Ernest Clark)
This person was a down-easter, and was well acquainted with the Johnstons and Wiscasset.
From Ned Myers or, a Life Before the Mast by Cooper, James Fenimore
My quaint down-easter, He who lashes the seas into fury, and lets loose the tempest, will care for thee!
From Sanders' Union Fourth Reader by Sanders, Charles W.
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