2. Noun. (Cockney rhyming slang) knickers (shortened form of Alan Whickers). ¹
3. Noun. (plural of alan) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Alans
1. alan [n] - See also: alan
Lexicographical Neighbors of Alans
Literary usage of Alans
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian: Concerning the Kingdoms and by Marco Polo, Henri Cordier, Henry Yule (1903)
"We find alans about the same time (in 5306) fighting well in the service of the
Byzantine Emperors (Muntaner, p. 449). All these circumstances render ..."
2. The Historical Geography of Europe by Edward Augustus Freeman (1903)
"... Suevi, Vandals, and alans. These last are a puzzling race, our accounts of
whom are somewhat contradictory, but who may perhaps be most safely set down ..."
3. Italy and Her Invaders by Thomas Hodgkin (1899)
"... and alans (the first two of Teutonic, the third of what we call Tartar origin)
crossed the Rhine and poured confusedly into Gaul, which from this time ..."
4. The Nationalities of Europe by Robert Gordon Latham (1863)
"Lucian mentions the alans as either actual Scythians or something very like it.
... Ammianus writes of the European alans: whilst by other writers they are ..."
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