All 5 Uses of
Dutch
in
Babbitt
- There was nothing of the giant in the aspect of the man who was beginning to awaken on the sleeping-porch of a Dutch Colonial house in that residential district of Zenith known as Floral Heights.†
Chpt 1
- Babbitt's green and white Dutch Colonial house was one of three in that block on Chatham Road.†
Chpt 3 *
- The market gardens in Dutch Hollow, their shanties patched with corrugated iron and stolen doors.†
Chpt 3
- He sat at a glass-covered table in the Art Room of the Inn, with its painted rabbits, mottoes lettered on birch bark, and waitresses being artistic in Dutch caps; he ate insufficient lettuce sandwiches, and was lively and naughty with Mrs. Sassburger, who was as smooth and large-eyed as a cloak-model.†
Chpt 13
- "Well, to tell the truth, Mrs. Overbrook, thing that hits me best is a great big beefsteak at a Dutch restaurant in the Loop!"†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(Dutch) the people of the Netherlands (including Holland); or relating to them (including the name of their language)editor's notes: Many people refer to the Netherlands as Holland -- which is more accurately the most populous region of the Netherlands. The Netherlands is best known for having 25% of its land below sea level.