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固有名詞

Yankee land

1. (British, informal) The United States.
   • 1851 July–December, Thomas Snarlyle, “Bloomerism: A Latter-Day Fragment”, in Punch, volume XXI, page 217:

     A mad world this, my friends, a world in its lunes […] ever since when this rampant androgynous Bloomerism first came over from Yankee land.

2. (Southern US, sometimes derogatory) The northern United States.

   Coordinate terms: Dixieland, Dixie, the Southland

3. (chiefly Northern US) New England.

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