New ˈZealander
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a. One of the aborigines of New Zealand; a Maori. Also (occas.) attrib. b. One of the European settlers in New Zealand.
| 1773 Cook Jrnl. (1961) II. 268 The New Zealanders cut and scar themselves on the same account. a 1791 Wesley Serm. lxxiv. Wks. 1811 IX. 320 A Hottentot, a New-Zealander. 1837 Sydney Gaz. 11 Dec., in R. McNab Old Whaling Days (1913) ix. 167 They saw the chief officer, James George Bailey, a New Zealander. 1841 M. Edgeworth Let. 14 Mar. (1971) 586 A New Zealander boy with large head and frizzled black hair and face as yellow as dirty gold. 1842 Prichard Nat. Hist. Man 337 The skulls of the New Zealanders differ somewhat from those of the nations already mentioned. 1864 Chambers's Encycl. VI. 742/1 The New Zealanders, or Maories,..are located, with the exception of a few hundreds, in North Island. 1886 J. A. Froude Oceana xx. 323 The Australian, the New Zealander, the Californian will have as much in them..of the ancient ‘Merry England’ as the severely earnest Northern American. 1901 Rose-Innes With Paget's Horse 174 All the other New Zealanders whom I met were..well educated. 1966 Mrs. L. B. Johnson White House Diary 20 Oct. (1970) 430 We departed in a New Zealand airplane with the Prime Minister and Mrs. Holyoake to the tune of a thousand New Zealanders singing. |