Transylvanian
Americannoun
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a native or inhabitant of Transylvania.
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of, relating to, or characteristic of Transylvania or its people.
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Nicholas Santiago’s projections give eerie embellishment to Stephanie Kerley Schwartz’s scenic design, so that the basic outline of Inverness Castle suggests at moments Dracula’s Transylvanian crypt.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2025
Bela Ferencz was born in the Transylvanian town of Somcuta Mare, in what was then Hungary, on March 11, 1920.
From Washington Post • Apr. 8, 2023
The Transylvanian region was the Roman frontier region of Dacia at the time, and was noted for its mines.
From Washington Times • Nov. 25, 2022
Or there was the equally spectacular, recently rediscovered 1697 silver tankard by the Transylvanian goldsmith Sebastian Hann the Elder that in the 1910s had been in the collection of Baroness Betty de Rothschild.
From New York Times • Jun. 27, 2022
They don’t flirt shamelessly with the likes of me when they have Transylvanian girlfriends.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
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