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Washingtonian adj.

Pertaining to, or characteristic of, George Washington; as, a Washingtonian policy.

Designating, or pertaining to, a temperance society and movement started in Baltimore in 1840 on the principle of total abstinence.

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Etymology of 'Washingtonian'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Washingtonian" Quotes from Famous Books

... and if the master humbly recorded that, although he owned a hundred cows, he had sometimes to buy butter for his family, the entry seems to have been made in no spirit of fault finding." Of this same Washingtonian hospitality one French traveller, Brissot de Warville, wrote: "Every thing has an air of simplicity in his [Washington's] house; his table is good, but not ostentatious; and no deviation is seen from regularity ...

— Woman's Life in Colonial Days • Carl Holliday

... of the popular Club de Vingt, or as one Washingtonian put it, the "Club De Vin," which had sprung into existence in the National Capital during the war, was ablaze with light and Benjamin Clymer, sitting at a small table in one corner of the dining-room, wished most heartily that it had been less crowded. Many dinner-parties ...

— The Red Seal • Natalie Sumner Lincoln

... theatres, meetings for promoting missions, revival meetings, and others to which she flies, in hope of an animation for her existence commensurate with what she sees enjoyed by men. Governors of ladies'-fairs are no less engrossed by such a charge, than the governor of a state by his; presidents of Washingtonian societies no less away from home than presidents of conventions. If men look straitly to it, they will find that, unless their lives are domestic, those of the women will not be. A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body. The female Greek, ...

— Woman in the Ninteenth Century - and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition - and Duties, of Woman. • Margaret Fuller Ossoli

Words linked to "Washingtonian" : Washington, American