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- adjective Of or relating to
Smyrna . - noun A native or inhabitant of
Smyrna .
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Examples
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When he has darkened his room, and spread cool mats on the floor, the poor Smyrniot has nothing farther that he can do.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 Various
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Others mixed in, recording the detail of Ottoman life in a series of fascinating dispatches, though few Englishmen seem to have had as much intimacy with Ottoman life as Francesco Lupazzoli, the priapic Venetian consul in Smyrna, who lived until he was 114, fathering no less than 126 children, 105 of them illegitimate, from his five wives and innumerable Smyrniot mistresses.
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Smyrniot), then by accident in London, called upon him immediately after the publication, and, laying his finger on a line in the exordium (as it then stood), said, 'Sare, I am one countryman of Homer's.
The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 Thomas De Quincey 1822
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