Leither

plural Leithers

1. An inhabitant of Leith.

   Among them is Trainspotting author and native Leither Irvine Welsh, who now lives in Chicago.

   2018 November 5, Marianne Taylor, “'The wrong type of development': the battle for Edinburgh's Leith Walk”, in The Guardian

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   The magistrates kept insisting that to exercise any trade a Leither must become a burgess of Edinburgh and must reside within the royalty of the city.

   1986, James Scott Marshall, “The Mediaeval Village”, in The Life and Times of Leith, →ISBN, page 10

   These days I’m a proud Leither, the republic that, as any Edinburgher knows has, had once long enjoyed its own independence.

   2014 September 15, Chitra Ramaswamy, “I’m Indian, English and live in Scotland. Will my son’s identity be as borderless after the referendum?”, in The Guardian