Pennamiteとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

Pennamite (複数形 Pennamites)

1. (archaic or historical) A person from, or fond of, Pennsylvania.
   • 1866, James L Bowen, The Maid of Wyoming:

     Jest say whether yer Yank or Pennamite—that's all that's required in these times.

   • 1902, Proceedings and Collections of the Wyoming Historical and Geological Society:

     To be sure Judge Fell and Mr. Miner were Federalists, but the first was an ardent Pennamite while the latter was a regular Yankee and claimant under Connecticut.

   • 2014, Andrew Lawson, Class and the Making of American Literature, →ISBN:

     In 1778, Pennamite Loyalists joined forces with British officers and Iroquois warriors, mounting an attack on the Wyoming Valley in which at least two hundred Yankee militiamen were killed in less than an hour.