Pennsylvania Dutchland

proper noun

Pennsylvania Dutch country; an area of southeastern Pennsylvania that historically had a high percentage of Pennsylvania Dutch inhabitants. The region centers around the cities of Allentown, Hershey, Lancaster, Reading, and York.

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Meanings

proper noun
  1. Pennsylvania Dutch country; an area of southeastern Pennsylvania that historically had a high percentage of Pennsylvania Dutch inhabitants. The region centers around the cities of Allentown, Hershey, Lancaster, Reading, and York.

    Perhaps pie cupboards were made and used in places beyond the Pennsylvania Dutchland.

    1965, Earl Francis Robacker, Touch of the Dutchland, page 63
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    Up until recent decades Easter Monday was celebrated as a holiday in rural Pennsylvania Dutchland.

    1960, Alfred Lewis Shoemaker, Eastertide in Pennsylvania: A Folk-cultural Study, →ISBN, page 41

    Staying in Pennsylvania Dutchland, you can visit HersheyPark and cavort with Hershey candy characters, or visit Lancaster's Dutch Wonderland, now also operated by Hershey Estates, which is replete with many pseudo German references.

    2004, Irwin Richman, The Pennsylvania Dutch Country, →ISBN, page 11
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