colons

(as if it were just another district - ha!), and the disparity between how the French (called the colons) lived in Algeria, and how the Algerians were permitted to live was astounding.

Dissident Voice 2009

Hundreds of thousands of French "colons" were convinced they had created a stable new world in Algeria.

Gabriel Rotello: Israel: The Next 60 Years 2008

In all the countries, the tremendous amount of work accomplished by the French Army and civilian administration on the one hand, and by the French settlers on the other hand -- most of them agricultural settlers, "colons" as they were called -- resulted in an extraordinary enrichment of the country and of its peoples.

The Algerian Issue 1958

It should be noted, by the way, that those settlers, those "colons", who were the force through which largely these three countries acquired such a phenomenally rapid development -- a development which was not only for the good of the newcomers, but by which the original population benefited tremendously, have not, all of them, made fortunes, far from it.

The Algerian Issue 1958

The only drawback is that there are no "colons" in the district.

Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia Norman Douglas 1910

The same holds for other dividers, such as colons, dashes, hyphens, and blanks.

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 4 1989

I would draw a firm line against moving other punctuation, such as colons or semicolons, to before the closing quotation mark except, of course, when it’s part of what’s being quoted, such as “He asked, ‘What did you say?’”

The Volokh Conspiracy » Commas and Periods — Inside Closing Quotation Marks or Outside Them? 2009

I would draw a firm line against moving other punctuation, such as colons or semicolons, to before the closing quotation mark except, of course, when it’s part of what’s being quoted, such as “He asked, ‘What did yousay?’”

The Volokh Conspiracy » Commas and Periods — Inside Closing Quotation Marks or Outside Them? 2009

The French land owners or "colons" called in the English to help them combat the blacks. [

The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922 Various

Their first date: an earlier Nerd Nite that featured talks on caffeine and colons.

'Nerd Nite' draws crowds to D.C. club 2011