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

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

Definitions:

(1) (Dutch)
the people of the Netherlands (including Holland); or relating to them (including the name of their language)

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.
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
meaning too rare to warrant focus:

Less commonly, Dutch is used in a the phrase Dutch oven (a thick-walled cooking pot with a tight-fitting lid) or Dutch doors (a door divided in such a fashion that the bottom half may remain shut while the top half opens).