Darmstädter

noun

A native or inhabitant of Darmstadt.

Meanings

nounDarmstädter (plural Darmstädters)

plural Darmstädters

  1. A native or inhabitant of Darmstadt.

    This particular deficiency is betrayed, though, in quite another direction, by the course adopted by the Darmstädters in dealing with the question of naming their streets.

    1887, W[illiam] Beatty-Kingston, Music and Manners: Personal Reminiscences and Sketches of Character, volume II (Manners), London: Chapman and Hall, Limited, page 341
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    Many Darmstädters also comforted themselves with the thought that their town was such an attractive place that the Allied armies, now only 80 miles from the stretch of the Rhine nearest to them, would no doubt want to use it as an area headquarters when the fighting stopped.

    1993, James Fyfe, The Great Ingratitude: Bomber Command in World War II, Wigtown: G.C. Book Publishers Ltd, →ISBN, page 186

    A police car stationed in front of the synagogue was less a reminder that this welcome might not be shared by all Darmstädters (which undoubtedly was the case, because Darmstadt like the entire Weinstrasse had been notoriously “brown”), than a reflection of typical anxieties of the German state and the Darmstadt community after the Holocaust.

    2017, Michael Geyer, “Die Bratus: Sketch for a Minor German History”, in Michael Meng, Adam R. Seipp, editors, Modern Germany in Transatlantic Perspective, New York, N..Y: Berghahn Books, →ISBN, section IV (Family Histories), page 265

Origin

  1. GermanDarmstädter
  2. EnglishDarmstädter

From German Darmstädter.

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