Hagenaar

plural Hagenaars

1. A native or inhabitant of The Hague.

   The palace was only seven miles from The Hague, overlooking the Westland dunes, and the drive out to it was a popular excursion for Hagenaars and foreign visitors.

   1973, Henri van der Zee, Barbara van der Zee, “Mary in Holland”, in William and Mary, London: Macmillan, →ISBN, pages 130–131

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   I went to a concert in the Zoological Gardens at the Hague, and thence to supper at one of the principal cafés. The waiters did not begin to worry us at a quarter to eleven, and by half-past twelve, when we left, the streets were still alive with people. Alive, not noisy, for the sense of the founder of the Dutch Republic appears to have been inherited by the nation generally, and by the Hagenaars especially. William the Silent, two of whose effigies adorn the royal residence, was neither silent nor taciturn, in spite of the adjectives tacked to his name.

   1895 June 22, “Anecdotal Europe. By the Author of ‘An Englishman in Paris.’”, in The Illustrated London News, volume CVI, number 2931, London, page 774, column 2

   Her sallies, carried right into the enemy’s citadel thus, plucking at the heart of his conceits, gave Tante Lotje quite a notoriety in The Hague. The Hagenaars looked upon her through their quizzing-glasses as a curiosity that matched well with her brother, the General—a prickly hero, bred on the pure, gross national stock; and tolerated her accordingly.

   1899 February, “Tante Lotje”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood & Sons, section I, pages 290–291

   And the Utrechters, after they were whisked round their beautiful Singel, and even through the noble bosky alley of the Maliebaan, were only restrained from an intolerable upsettingness by the gibes of the Hagenaars at the old horse-express, now departed, which survived for a time to ply a raucous and tortuous course around their Dom.

   1911, D[avid] S[torrar] Meldrum, “Shades of the Rapenburg”, in Home Life in Holland, London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., page 303

   When Hendrik arrived in The Hague, he brought greetings from her father to Doerga. Since then, they had been seen constantly together, and the Hagenaars began to whisper about the possibility of a marriage, just as they did about Louise and Adriaan.

   1947, Lilla van Saher, chapter 11, in The Echo, New York, N.Y.: E. P. Dutton & Company Inc., part two, page 144

   Next day, in the presence of the States, he [William of Orange] took the oath as Captain-General, and returned his thanks for the honour “with a winning modesty”. He went out to meet a delirious ovation. The Hagenaars, who long ago had thronged about the Groote Kerk “as if they all wanted to be christened with him”, were out in their thousands, reinforced by visitors from the neighbouring towns and villages.

   1962, Nesca A[deline] Robb, “Prelude to Fame”, in William of Orange: A Personal Portrait, volume 1 (1650–1673), London: Heinemann, book four (The Crucible 1671–1673), page 210