Kurpian

plural Kurpians

1. A person from or native to the Kurpie region of Poland.

   The Kurpians are a people of distinctive characteristics, with manners and speech of their own, and a highly original and elegant costume.

   1939, Louise Llewellyn Jarecka, “Popular Art in Poland”, in The Geographical Magazine, volume 8, number 5, page 349

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   The Kurpians and some of the Mazovians put such an emphasis on the penultimate note of the song that the last note becomes almost inaudible.

   1992, Czesław Halski, Folk Music in Poland: Songs, Dances, Instruments: a Study of Their Origins and Their Development, London: Polish Cultural Foundation, →ISBN, page 42

1. not comparableOf, from, or pertaining to the Kurpie region or its people.

   The Lowicz, the Opoczynski districts, together with Podlasie and the Kurpian country (i.e. the region of great forests) are the chief strongholds of weaving.

   1912, Maryan Wawrzeniecki, “Peasant Art in Russian Poland”, in Charles Holme, editor, Peasant Art in Russia, London Studio, page 39

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   Farmer Polescuk, clad in rough linen, led, driving his two horses hitched to a plow that was held by a robust peasant. An elderly woman in Kurpian dress, adorned with amber beads of her own manufacture followed, carrying a consecrated candle.

   1992, Margaret Read MacDonald, The Folklore of World Holidays, Detroit: Gale Research, →ISBN, page 462

   Szymanowski started another 'occasional' work — unique in his output — in the summer months of 1928. This was the a capella elaboration of six Kurpian folk-songs.

   1999, Wightman, Alistair, author, Karol Szymanowski: His Life and Work, London, [England]; New York, New York: Routledge, →ISBN, page 322