Bavarese

See also: baverse

English

Etymology

From Bavaria +‎ -ese.

Adjective

Bavarese

1. (obsolete, rare) Bavarian.
   • 1845, Encyclopaedia Metropolitana, Or, Universal Dictionary of Knowledge:

     [...] the petty districts depending on Oldenburgh, and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, and by the Bavarese Circle of the Rhine; and on the West by the Dutch Monarchy and the Kingdom of Belgium.

   • 1846, The New Monthly Magazine, edited by W. Harrison Ainsworth, Review of the Book of Costume, page 249:

     (By-the-bye, how is it that the brazen helmet of a Bavarese maiden is omitted?)

Noun

Bavarese pl (plural only)

1. (obsolete, rare) Bavarians collectively.
   • 1861, The Foreign Quarterly Review, volume 75, page 553:

     The picture of devastated Palermo which he draws fills up the measure of the dastardly oppression which has now passed away; more disgraceful excesses than those committed by the Bavarese, as the Sicilians called the royal troops, were [...]