All 12 Uses
Dutch
in
The Cay, by Taylor
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- I was asleep on the second floor of our narrow, gabled green house in Willemstad, on the island of Curacao, the largest of the Dutch islands just off the coast of Venezuela.†
p. 9.5
- So later in the morning, when she was busy making sure that all our blackout curtains were in place, and filling extra pots with fresh water, and checking our food supply, I stole away down to the old fort with Henrik van Boven, my Dutch friend who was also eleven.†
p. 11.1
- Or sometimes we'd pretend we were the Dutch going out on raids against Spanish galleons.†
p. 11.3 *
- After he had had his pint of cold Dutch ale (he had one every night in the living room after he came home), I asked, "Will they shoot at us tonight?"†
p. 15.3
- Royal Dutch Shell had borrowed him from his American company because he was an expert in refineries and gasoline production.†
p. 16.4
- I guess my mother was homesick for Virginia, where no one talked Dutch, and there was no smell of gas or oil, and there weren't as many black people around.†
p. 17.4
- It rains very little in the Dutch West Indies unless there is a hurricane, and water from the few wells has a heavy salt content.†
p. 21.4
- I thought that when two American destroyers arrived, along with the Dutch cruiser Van Kingsbergen, to protect the lake tankers, Mother would change her mind.†
p. 24.4
- She was a small Dutch freighter with a high bow and stem, and a bridge house in the middle between two well decks.†
p. 25.8
- I'd been tutored in Dutch the first year in Willemstad so I could attend the regular school.†
p. 70.4in dutch = of the Netherlands or its people
- He works for Royal Dutch Shell," I answered.†
p. 134.6
- I saw Henrik van Boven occasionally, but it wasn't the same as when we'd played the Dutch or the British.†
p. 136.6
Definitions:
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(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.
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(2)
(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).