All 9 Uses of
Dutch
in
Running in the Family
- When the Dutch first built this house egg white was used to paint the walls.†
p. 24..3 *
- Here, in this spacious centre of the labyrinth of 18th-century Dutch defense I sit on one of the giant sofas, in the noisy solitude of the afternoon while the rest of the house is asleep.†
p. 25..2
- In the dark mildewed wing, where the rotting mosquito nets hang, lives the apparition of the Dutch governor's daughter.†
p. 26..9
- A Mr Hobday has asked my father if he has any Dutch antiques in the house.†
p. 27..8
- Everyone was vaguely related and had Sinhalese, Tamil, Dutch, British and Burgher blood in them going back many generations.†
p. 41..5
- The Dutch.†
p. 64..3
- It pretended to reflect each European power till newer ships arrived and spilled their nationalities, some of whom stayed and intermarried—my own ancestor arriving in i600, a doctor who cured the residing governor's daughter with a strange herb and was rewarded with land, a foreign wife, and a new name which was a Dutch spelling of his own.†
p. 64..8
- And when his Dutch wife died, marrying a Sinhalese woman, having nine children, and remaining.†
p. 64..9
- All of them had moved at times with an ass's head, Titania Dorothy Hilden Lysander de Saram, a mongrel collection part Sinhalese part Dutch part Tamil part ass moving slowly in the forests with foolish and serious obsessions.†
p. 188..9
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.