Vandemonian

British  

/ ˌvæn dəˈməʊnɪən /

noun

1. a native or inhabitant of the former Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania)

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adjective

1. of or relating to Van Diemen's Land or its inhabitants

Example Sentences

When it is further remembered: that the principle amusement of the most respectable of the gold-diggers, is that of holding social converse in their tents, or around their evening camp-fires, it will appear less strange, that amongst so many “men of character” one should become acquainted with not a few “romances of real life”—such as that of the “Vandemonian” who became my associate in the “sweet vale of Avoca,” and which is here recorded, as one of many a “convict’s story,” of which I have been the confidant.

From Project Gutenberg

But this was an utter non possimus with the nominees and squatting members, most of whom, with Ebden at their head, would almost rather have endured a presentable Vandemonian expiree in the chair than the ultra-democratic Town Clerk and caustic ex-editor of the anti-squatter and anti-government "Argus".

From Project Gutenberg

Every now and again he shouted out in a stentorian voice that made the welkin ring; and the burden of his cry was this: "'Ere's happles, happles, Vandemonian happles, and them as dislikes the hiland needn't heat them."

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"Not so much gentlemening, if YOU please!" said a sinister-looking man, who might have been a Vandemonian in his day.

From Project Gutenberg

She, an old Vandemonian, needed no second warning, and as the two young people rode away, they saw her clearing the paddock rapidly, and making for a dense clump of wattles, which grew just beyond the fence.

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