[f. prec. + -ER1.] An inhabitant of Lapland; a Lapp.
1637. Shirley, Yng. Admirall, IV. G 2. Great Lady of the Laplanders.
1647. Case Kingd., 10. As if they ment to imprison Æolus … in a bagge (as tis said of the Laplanders).
1712. Swift, Jrnl. to Stella, 17 June. Can I help wind and weather? am I a Laplander? am I a witch?
1778. Abigail Adams, in J. Adams’ Fam. Lett. (1876), 343. By Heaven, if you could, you have changed hearts with some frozen Laplander.
1839. E. D. Clarke, Trav. Russia, 52/1. Others … were smoking … much after the manner of Laplanders.
So Laplandian, Laplandic, Laplandish adjs., of or pertaining to Lapland, its people or their language.
a. 1711. Ken, Edmund, I. Wks. 1721, II. 10. To a delusive Banquet, I last Night Sent, the Laplandian Witches to invite.
1796. Morse, Amer. Geog., II. 54. The Laplandic grammar of Mr. Lindahl.
1881. Med. Temp. Jrnl., XLVII. 167. A steady diminution of the population of the Laplandish part of Norrland commenced in 1825.
