a. and sb. Also -ian. [f. Tyrol (see def.) + -EAN. Cf. F. tyrolien.] a. adj. Belonging to Tyrol (often called ‘the Tyrol’), a province of Austria-Hungary. b. sb. A native or inhabitant of Tyrol. So Tyroler [G. Tyroler, Tiroler: see -ER.] = Tyrolean b; Tyrolese a. and sb. = Tyrolean; ǁ Tyrolienne [F., fem. of tyrolien Tyrolean], a dance or song of the Tyrolese peasants, or in the style of this.
1809. Repos. of Arts, II. 388/1. The attachment of the *Tyroleans … to their emperors was always firm.
1859. Habits Gd. Soc., vi. (new ed.), 232. Except for the occasional playing of Tyrolean minstrels, [the zither is] unknown in this country.
1906. Temple Bar Mag., Jan., 33. Green Tyrolean hats with feathers.
1909. Cent. Dict. Supp., Tyrolian.
1891. Cent. Dict., *Tyroler.
1899. Daily News, 20 Dec., 6/6. They got guides familiar with the ground, and … outflanked the Tyrolers.
1809. Repos. of Arts, II. 388. Portrait of the *Tyrolese Deputies. Ibid., 389. He stipulated that the privileges of the Tyrolese … should remain entire.
1844. A. P. de Lisle, in E. Purcell, Life (1900), I. vii. 131. Columns of white Tyrolese marble.
1872. Ruskin, Fors Clav. (1896), I. xix. 373. The Tyrolese mountains.
1898. Review of Rev., Feb., 181/2. The Tyrolese … a sterling, sober-minded people.
1889. W. B. Squire, in Grove, Dict. Mus., IV. 198. The best-known example of an artificial *‘Tyrolienne’ is the well-known ‘Chœur Tyrolien’ in Act iii of Rossini’s ‘Guillaume Tell.’
