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Albioner
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English
Etymology
From en Albion er<id:inhabitant>.
Noun
en rare en Albion Great Britain (or sometimes just England or the British Isles).
en Albionian#Noun
en 28 February 1844 Guepe pseudonym Private Correspondence John Bull XXIV 1,212 London Printed and published by J. C. Bunney,No. 40, Fleet-street. 2 March 1844 138 https://books.google.com/books?id=_u1CAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA138 2 1009002263 They don’t indeed imitate their countrymen in that distant part of the world, who are ready at a moment’s notice, whether asked or not, whether for any conceivable purpose or not, to “die for the glorious tri-colour,” but they spill ink and waste pens for it in a manner most appalling to the perfidious Albioners in Paris, most encouraging to stationers, and most expensive to the newspaper proprietors who have to pay.
en 27 March 1851 Correspondence The Literary Gazetteand Journal of Belles Lettres, Science, and Art, for the Year 1851. 1784 London Reeve and Benham,5, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden. 29 March 1851 237 https://archive.org/details/sim_literary-gazette_1851-03-29_1784/page/n12/mode/1up 3 1065000257 M. Mohl must, then, give up all claim to the fr gloire of having introduced Firdousi to the European literary world; and his countrymen and admirers must perforce consent to transfer it to the perfidious Albioners.
en 3 July 1852 [Notices.] fr Londres au point de vue Belge. By L. Jottrand. Brussels: Muquardt. The Literary Gazetteand Journal of Belles Lettres, Science, and Art, for the Year 1852. 1850 London Reeve and Co.,5, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden. 528 https://archive.org/details/sim_literary-gazette_1852-07-03_1850/page/528/mode/1up 3 1065000257 But the fr brave Belge, M. Jottrand, who now writes on the huge city, is of a very different stamp. No hatred has he of the perfidious Albioners; no burning envy, no malignant injustice fill his heart.
en 23 July 1863 correspondent Foreign Correspondence The Economist,Weekly Commercial Times, Bankers’ Gazette, and Railway Monitor: A Political, Literary, and General Newspaper. XXI 1,039 London 25 July 1863 822 https://archive.org/details/sim_economist_1863-07-25_21_1039/page/822/mode/1up 1 0013-0613 1081684 M. Ferdinand de Lessseps, the Chairman of the Company, and, so to speak, its life and soul, was on presenting himself greeted with enthusiasm—the accounts presented were sanctioned with enthusiasm—the reports on the state of the works were enthusiastically applauded—and much abuse of perfidious Albion for opposing the canal, and in particular of the most perfidious of all Albioners, Lord Palmerston, which adorned the said reports, and was repeated in other words by M. de Lesseps, was cheered until the roof shook.
en 1897 George Jacob Holyoake 1893.Perplexity of the New Zealander in Leeds—The Street with the National Name—Public Taste in Stores—Death of a Foremost Advocate—Fire and Flood—Cricket Field Habitations—The Leeds Musicians at the Crystal Palace—Trade Depression but No Profit Depression. The Jubilee History of the Leeds Industrial Co-operative Society Limited,from 1847 to 1897, Traced Year by Year, by George Jacob Holyoake. Manchester Co-operative Printing SocietyLimited, 92, Corporation Street. 159 https://archive.org/details/jubileehistoryof00holy/page/159/mode/1up 7663791 Travellers from abroad speak of “landing on the shores of Albion.” The inhabitants are Albioners, a prettier and more resonant name than “Britishers.”
en 1929 Nancy Hoyt Promise Not to Tell New York, N.Y. Horace Liveright 177 https://books.google.com/books?id=iqhRAQAAMAAJ&q=albioners 24156006 [T]here you will have been expoged to the seduction of St. Moritz moon and can even the best of boy-friends amongst perfidious albioners resist that moon?
en 1988 February Charles Fontenay Fredeya Robert Adams; Martin Harry Greenberg; Patricia Crippen Adams Barbarians II Demons and Sorcerers New York, N.Y. Signet 185 https://archive.org/details/barbariansii0000unse/page/185/mode/1up 0-451-15198-4 Barigrange and his colleagues could not understand a word of the discussion between Nikhol and Cedhunt, as it was in the Greenlander tongue, but from the expressions on Nikhol’s face it was apparent that Cedhunt was doing a good job of convincing him of a profitable business relatonship in prospect with these “Albioners.”
en 14 October 1997 Antonio Marques fr:Le "CALF" boulegue ! soc.culture.occitan https://web.archive.org/web/20260818115326/https://groups.google.com/g/soc.culture.occitan/c/a-NMs_0dm9w/m/osml8_NCdCsJ Let's give the perfidian Albioners roasted veal for dinner!
en 2001 w:Andre Norton; w:Rosemary Edghill Savage Enchantment (Baltimore, August 1807) Leopard in Exile Carolus Rex 2 New York, N.Y. Tor 174 https://archive.org/details/leopardinexile00nort/page/n177/mode/1up 0-312-86428-0 The man was dressed in country fashion, obviously a native Albioner or trying hard to look like one.
en 28 July 2002 David C Pugh She may have a point. alt.callahans https://web.archive.org/web/20260818115342/https://groups.google.com/g/alt.callahans/c/xInenPwCLDQ/m/c3J6Y0BLO40J But I don't think they'd associate <fr grenouille> with francophobic Albioners, would they?
en 2023 September 2023 October w:Sarah Monette The Kingdom of Darkness w:Lynne M. Thomas; w:Michael Damian Thomas w:Uncanny Magazine 54 [Urbana, Ill.] part III (Jane Cathar) 88 https://books.google.com/books?id=cxrTEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA88 1591518757 “Albioners bring demons. Not the Cathar.” Isaiah obediently extended his hand toward Jane, and while Jane might lie to an Albioner—and probably did so habitually to protect herself—she knew better than to disobey one.