Raleighan

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A native or inhabitant of Raleigh, North Carolina, in the United States.

   • Subsequently, Jonathan Daniels, Truman's secretary and Yergan's fellow Raleighan, told a White House staffer that he knew the NNC president well, ...
   • In the morning, like other wide-eyed Raleighans I crept out of my door and surveyed the devastation [of Hurricane Fran]. No street was passable; trees crossed every road, ...
   • It's a long story, plausibly true, and beloved by Raleighans. After the Revolution, legislators of the new state needed to plant their capital somewhere ...
2. 2

   A follower, imitator or scholar of Walter Raleigh.

   • […] Baconians proper, Raleighans, Stanleyites, Rutlanders, Marlowites, etc., have made it a strong argument against the Stratfordean's claim to […]
   • ... the letter is replete with Raleighan echoes notwithstanding such rhetoric as "Woe, woe, woe.... Oh God.... Oh, what will my poor servants think."

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