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Definition of Corsican
1. Adjective. Of or relating to or characteristic of Corsica or its people.
Definition of Corsican
1. Adjective. Of, from, or pertaining to Corsica, the Corsican people or the Corsican language. ¹
2. Noun. A person from Corsica or of Corsican descent. ¹
3. Proper noun. The language of the Corsican people. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Corsican
Literary usage of Corsican
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Growth of Napoleon: A Study in Environment by Norwood Young (1910)
"The rest of the Corsican army dispersed, crying out that they had been betrayed,
and refused to fight more. Thus, owing to a mistaken order, given it is not ..."
2. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte by William Milligan Sloane (1910)
"Zr. 22-23] THE Corsican JACOBIN determined to stand for one of the higher ...
There were now two political dubs in Ajaccio: that of the Corsican Jacobins, ..."
3. The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature, Ancient by Richard Garnett, Leon Vallée, Alois Brandl (1899)
"No one but a Corsican would have noticed that in the square around the green oak
only women were to be seen. At supper time Colomba joyfully showed her ..."
4. Corsica: Picturesque, Historical, and Social: with a Sketch of the Early by Ferdinand Gregorovius (1855)
"CHAPTER I. VESCOVATO AND THE Corsican HISTORIANS. SOME miles to the southward of
Bastia, on the heights of the eastern coast, lies the so much renowned town ..."
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