quarterite
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]quarterite (plural quarterites)
- An inhabitant of a particular quarter.
- 1939, Elliot Paul, The Mysterious Mickey Finn, Dover, published 2014, page 101:
- The word that Ambrose Gring, formerly a quarterite and, according to the latest papers, one of the picture bandits, had died and that murder was suspected had permeated every nook of Montparnasse.
- a. 1969, John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces, Penguin, published 1981, →ISBN:
- At Bourbon, Ignatius turned and began walking up toward Canal through the night's parade of tourists and Quarterites, among whom he did not look particularly strange.