- a variation of Genevan.
Genevese
Americannoun
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Genevese
plural
adjective
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He was driven from France for his political theories, abdicated his Genevese citizenship, fled to England under the protection of "turtle-eating alderman" David Hume.
From Time Magazine Archive
The introduction of the Genevese Church discipline is almost a foregone conclusion.
From Klytia A Story of Heidelberg Castle by Adolf Hausrath
The first of these was Necker, a Genevese financier.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" by Various
Did he not make it a law, that no Genevese should invite more than ten persons to dinner?
From Klytia A Story of Heidelberg Castle by Adolf Hausrath
The Genevese, thus abandoned by their natural protector, looked to the Swiss for help.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" by Various
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