Maxonian

1. not comparableOf or pertaining to the town of Macclesfield in Cheshire.

   An exhibition and play will both examine the Maxonian band's legacy.

   2015 April 15, Alex Hibbert, “New events in memory of Joy Division's Ian Curtis”, in Macclesfield Express

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   […] gleeful grins on their faces and arms wrapped around girls of known questionable reputation who no self-respecting Maxonian lad would have touched with a barge pole.

   2013, Cliff Staniforth, Not All Bad: Memories of a Silk-town Childhood, page 110

   We’re delighted to also welcome back New Order’s Stephen Morris and Gillian Gilbert – both big supporters of Barnaby – on the decks for a special Maxonian session.

   2016 June 2, Rhiannon McDowall, “Barnaby Bites”, in Macclesfield Express

plural Maxonians

1. A native or inhabitant of Macclesfield.

   My thanks to my friends Clifford and Pauline Baillie, true Maxonians both, who helped me with local colour and phrases.

   1992, Jan Webster, Bluebell Blue, page viii

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   As a fellow Macclesfieldian—or Maxonian as one was inexplicably called—I was fascinated to read the whole factual story of St Peter's Working Men's Institute, whose weekly affairs I used to report, all unknowing, in the days of bicycle clips and wet macs.

   1967, New Society, volume 9, numbers 236-248, page 892

   One born-and-bred Maxonian, now living around High Street, proffered a cognate observation about the plight of those 'stuck' on Moss Rose

   2005, Evi Girling, Crime and Social Change in Middle England: Questions of Order in an English Town