Raleighan

English

From Raleigh +‎ -an.

Raleighan (plural Raleighans)

A native or inhabitant of Raleigh, North Carolina, in the United States.
- 2006, David Henry Anthony, III, Max Yergan: Race Man, Internationalist, Cold Warrior, NYU Press, →ISBN:
  Subsequently, Jonathan Daniels, Truman's secretary and Yergan's fellow Raleighan, told a White House staffer that he knew the NNC president well, ...
- 2007, Scott Huler, Defining the Wind: The Beaufort Scale and How a 19th-Century Admiral Turned Science into Poetry, Crown, →ISBN, page 3:
  In the morning, like other wide-eyed Raleighans I crept out of my door and surveyed the devastation [of Hurricane Fran]. No street was passable; trees crossed every road, ...
- 2010, Scott Huler, On the Grid: A Plot of Land, an Average Neighborhood, and the Systems That Make Our World Work, Rodale Books, →ISBN, page 14:
  It's a long story, plausibly true, and beloved by Raleighans. After the Revolution, legislators of the new state needed to plant their capital somewhere ...
A follower, imitator or scholar of Walter Raleigh.
- 1916, The Dial, page 456:
  […] Baconians proper, Raleighans, Stanleyites, Rutlanders, Marlowites, etc., have made it a strong argument against the Stratfordean's claim to […]
- 2015, Willard Mosher Wallace, Sir Walter Raleigh, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 198:
  ... the letter is replete with Raleighan echoes notwithstanding such rhetoric as "Woe, woe, woe.... Oh God.... Oh, what will my poor servants think."