Meanings
- An inhabitant of the city of Ypres; (also, more broadly) an inhabitant of the municipality of the same name.
David Nicholas […] provides fascinating detail about the mutual indebtedness of the Yprois at the end of the thirteenth century.
2010 June, Martha C. Howell, “Introduction”, in Commerce Before Capitalism in Europe, 1300-1600, footnote 42, page 262 more examples
A few amongst them even fled, some of whom in endeavouring to swim across the Lys were drowned, and others who made for the city were stopped by the Yprois who manned the ramparts, and driven back to the fight.
1845 May, “The Battle of the Spurs”, in Colburn’s United Service Magazine and Naval and Military Journal, II, page 20They were the work of the Yprois Taillebert, who, both in stone and wood, has left in his native town and its neighbourhood incontestible proofs of his activity and talent.
1910, Thomas Francis Bumpus, The Cathedrals and Churches of Belgium, page 123
- not comparableOf, comprising, or populated by Yprois.
To trace the origin of the Yprois devotion to this Madonna, we must go back five centuries.
1890, The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, page 3441 more example
Margaret was a woman of property, a member of the upper classes; both she and her husband were from prominent Yprois families.
2004 January, Ellen E. Kittell, “Reconciliation or Punishment: Women, Community, and Malefaction in the Medieval County of Flanders”, in Ellen E. Kittell, Mary A. Suydam, editors, The Texture of Society: Medieval Women in the Southern Low Countries, page 9
Origin
First attested in nominal use in May 1845 and in adjectival use in 1890; from the French noun Yprois and adjective yprois, both from Ypres.
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