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Tirolese

American  
[tir-uh-leez, -lees, tahy-ruh-] / ˌtɪr əˈliz, -ˈlis, ˌtaɪ rə- /

adjective

  • Tirolese
    plural
  1. Tyrolese.


Tirolese British  
/ ˌtɪrəˈliːz /

adjective

  1. a variant spelling of Tyrolese

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

In character they much resembled Tirolese houses except for the elaborate carving over the doors and windows and the many colours in which they were painted.

From Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 by Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury

Bavaria is the only division of the country that includes within it any part of the Alps, the Austro-Bavarian frontier running along the ridge of the Northern Tirolese or Bavarian Alps.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" by Various

The Tirolese soon grew weary of his government, and, in 1446, Sigismund was declared of age.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" by Various

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