Albioner

plural Albioners

1. rareA native or inhabitant of Albion (Great Britain (or sometimes just England or the British Isles)).

   Travellers from abroad speak of “landing on the shores of Albion.” The inhabitants are Albioners, a prettier and more resonant name than “Britishers.”

   1897, George Jacob Holyoake, “1893. […]”, in The Jubilee History of the Leeds Industrial Co-operative Society Limited, […], Manchester: Co-operative Printing Society […], →OCLC, page 159

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   They don’t indeed imitate their countrymen in that distant part of the world, who are ready at a moment’s notice, whether asked or not, whether for any conceivable purpose or not, to “die for the glorious tri-colour,” but they spill ink and waste pens for it in a manner most appalling to the perfidious Albioners in Paris, most encouraging to stationers, and most expensive to the newspaper proprietors who have to pay.

   1844 February 28, Guepe [pseudonym], “Private Correspondence”, in John Bull, volume XXIV, number 1,212, London: […] J. C. Bunney, […], published 2 March 1844, →OCLC, page 138, column 2

   M. Mohl must, then, give up all claim to the gloire of having introduced Firdousi to the European literary world; and his countrymen and admirers must perforce consent to transfer it to the perfidious Albioners.

   1851 March 27, “Correspondence”, in The Literary Gazette […], number 1784, London: Reeve and Benham, […], published 29 March 1851, →OCLC, page 237, column 3

   But the brave Belge, M. Jottrand, who now writes on the huge city, is of a very different stamp. No hatred has he of the perfidious Albioners; no burning envy, no malignant injustice fill his heart.

   1852 July 3, “[Notices.] Londres au point de vue Belge. By L. Jottrand. Brussels: Muquardt.”, in The Literary Gazette […], number 1850, London: Reeve and Co., […], →OCLC, page 528, column 3

   M. Ferdinand de Lessseps,^([sic]) the Chairman of the Company, and, so to speak, its life and soul, was on presenting himself greeted with enthusiasm—the accounts presented were sanctioned with enthusiasm—the reports on the state of the works were enthusiastically applauded—and much abuse of perfidious Albion for opposing the canal, and in particular of the most perfidious of all Albioners, Lord Palmerston, which adorned the said reports, and was repeated in other words by M. de Lesseps, was cheered until the roof shook.

   1863 July 23, correspondent, “Foreign Correspondence”, in The Economist, […], volume XXI, number 1,039, London, published 25 July 1863, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 822, column 1

   [T]here you will have been expoged to the seduction of St. Moritz moon and can even the best of boy-friends amongst perfidious albioners^([sic]) resist that moon?

   1929, Nancy Hoyt, Promise Not to Tell, New York, N.Y.: Horace Liveright, →OCLC, page 177

   Synonyms: Albionian