Forms: 6 Zelender, 7 Zelander, 7– Zealander. [f. Zealand = Du. Zeeland + -ER1.] A native or inhabitant of Zealand, a province of the Netherlands.

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1573.  Bedingfield, trans. Cardanus’ Comf., II. (1576), 21. Gulielmus a Zelender.

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1656.  Earl Monm., trans. Boccalini’s Pol. Touchstone (1674), 254. She doth … make more … War upon the Spaniards, than do the Hollanders and Zealanders.

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1766.  Compl. Farmer, 5 H b/1. The Zealanders let their’s [sc. madder] grow larger.

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1855.  Macaulay, Hist. Eng., xx. IV. 485. Every merchant ship that cleared out from the Thames or the Severn would be manned by Zealanders and Hollanders and Frieslanders.

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  ***  See also NEW ZEALANDER.

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