Antwerpenaar

plural Antwerpenaars

1. A native or inhabitant of Antwerp.

   […] his fellow-citizens—they take pride in not being Antwerpenaars themselves.

   1943, Belgium Zone Handbook, Ministry of Economic Warfare, page 11

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   It is part of the prison constructed in one of the angles of the citadel, which was built by the Duke of Alva to keep the rebellious Antwerpenaars in check.

   1876, Albert D. Vandam, “Genius en Négligé. Two Dutch Pictures by the Author of ‘Famous Bohemians,’ etc.”, in London Society. An Illustrated Magazine of Light and Amusing Literature for the Hours of Relaxation., volume XXIX, London: […], page 120, column 2

   At the head of the famous Antwerpenaars belonging to the immediate circle of Rubens stands Van Dyck.

   1888, Conrad Busken Huet, translated by Albert Dresden Vandam, The Land of Rubens: A Companion for Visitors to Belgium and France, London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd., page 156

   In helping him, these Antwerpenaars were risking not only death but torture—for he had Fräulein’s secrets.

   1942, Katharine Roberts, Center of the Web, Garden City, N.Y.: The Crime Club, page 238

   The spacious and idealistic plans of Willem Usselincx, one of the many ex-Antwerpenaars resident in Amsterdam, for the colonization of the New World as a new world, found no sympathetic hearing in realistic Amsterdam, and the West India Company was modelled fairly closely after the East India Company.

   1950, Violet Barbour, Capitalism in Amsterdam in the Seventeenth Century, Johns Hopkins University Press, page 136

   In the early 1560s the Protestants there were strengthened both quantitatively and qualitatively by an influx of gentry and wealthy Antwerpenaars, who put this previously small group in touch with their co-religionists at Antwerp.

   1973, Acta Historiae Neerlandicae: Studies on the History of the Netherlands, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, →ISBN, page 183

   Synonyms: Antwerpian