Polonese

See also: polonese

English

Etymology 1

From French polonais. By surface analysis, Polono- +‎ -ese.

Proper noun

Polonese (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) The Polish language.

Adjective

Polonese (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Polish.
   • 1768 April, “Foreign Affairs”, in The London Magazine. Or, Gentleman’s Monthly Intelligencer, London: […] R. Baldwin, […], page 231, column 2:

     Warſaw, March 26. An expreſs is arrived with advice, that the reconfederates of Podolia had formed a ſcheme to carry off the commander of the troops belonging to the Republick; but the latter having been informed of it, had retired into the fortreſs of Kaminieck, which he was obliged to do with ſo much precipitation, that all the Poloneſe companies, conſiſting of two thouſand men, were made priſoners.

   • 1805, William [Fordyce] Mavor, Universal History, Ancient and Modern; from the Earliest Records of Time, to the General Peace of 1801, volume XXIII, New York, N.Y.: […] Isaac Collins and Son, for Samuel Stansbury and Co., page 263:

     To keep up appearances, however, he succeeded in obtaining declaration at the diet held at Warsaw, that such of the Polonese nobility alone as were born of catholic parents could pretend to the crown; […]

   • 1821 August 13, Thomas Jefferson, “To James Monroe”, in Andrew A[dgate] Lipscomb, Albert Ellery Bergh, editors, The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Library Edition […], volume XIX, Washington, D.C.: Issued under the Auspices of The Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States, published 1903, page 274:

     You have seen announced in several of our papers an intention of the Polonese nation to erect a monument near Cracow to the memory of General Kosciusko, and their wish that England and the United States, by joining in contributions, might give a proof of the interest they take in his character; […]

Etymology 2

From French Polonais. By surface analysis, Polono- +‎ -ese.

Noun

Polonese (plural Polonese)

1. (obsolete) A Pole.
   • 1794, Charlotte Smith, chapter II, in The Banished Man. […], volume II, London: […] T[homas] Cadell, Jun. and W[illiam] Davies, (successors to Mr. [Thomas] Cadell) […], →OCLC, page 40:

     He immediately began to aſſure the Poliſh gentleman, that whatever he could do to amend his ſituation ſhould inſtantly be done. The voice of pity, ſo ſooting to the ſick heart, ſeemed to have an almoſt immediate effect on the unfortunate Poloneſe.

   • 1807, “Foreign News”, in The Lady’s Magazine, or Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex; Appropriated Solely to Their Use and Amusement, volume XXXVIII, London: […] G[eorge] Robinson, page 49, column 2:

     The emperor intends to go to Warsaw as soon as the troops have taken the positions assigned to them. The army supports itself on the Vistula, and the confederate Polonese are encamped at Czeskok, so as to make part of the right wing of the army.

   • 1826, Charles Swan, Journal of a Voyage up the Mediterranean; Principally among the Islands of the Archipelago, and in Asia Minor: […], volume II, London: […] C[harles] and J[ohn] Rivington, […], page 114:

     There is a Polonese on board, who, with his wife, (an English woman,) is come out to train Greek cavalry.

References

• “Polonese”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Interlingua

Proper noun

Polonese

1. The Polish language.

Synonyms

• lingua polonese