Worcesteriteとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

Worcesterite (plural Worcesterites)

1. Someone from Worcester, Worcestershire, England.
2. Someone from Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts.
   • 1890 March 1, “Worcester's Mayor”, in Light‎, volume 1, number 1, page 19:

     Mayor Harrington is a New Englander, a Worcesterite by birth and inclination, who loves his town as much as his town loves him.

   • 1935 October 23, Hy Hurtwitz, “Miller Outclasses Cormier at Garden”, in The Boston Globe, page 22:

     Miller, a frail but clever champion, spent most of the night warding off the wild rushes of the game but incompetent Worcesterite.

   • 1991, Roy Rosenzweig, “The Rise of the Saloon”, in Chandra Mukerji and Michael Schudson, editors, Rethinking Popular Culture: Contempory Perspectives in Cultural Studies, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 126:

     The Worcesterite replied: "You cannot get anything to drink here, the places for the sale of liquor have all been closed up."