- a variation of Tyrolese.
Tirolese
Americanadjective
adjective
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France's Jean Borotra, the Bounding Basque of tennis fame, bounded down a Tirolese road, accompanied by a bribed German guard and romped into the ranks of an American battalion.
From Time Magazine Archive
On crisp Tirolese evenings they all gathered in the hall of their mountain castle to sing and play hoary Latin masses and lusty Tirolese folk songs.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sigismund sighed for some Tirolese whom he had left at home, but he had at least one man with him ready to dare any height; and he thought a rope would make all things sure.
From Two Penniless Princesses by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
Thus, too, in one of the Tirolese stories already mentioned the husband lies in wait for his wife when she returns, as usual, to comb her little girl's hair on a Saturday.
From The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology by Hartland, Edwin Sidney
The same thing is indicated to the wife in a Tirolese tale by means of a voice, which her husband hears as he passes through the forest.
From The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology by Hartland, Edwin Sidney
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