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Laplander   Listen
noun
Laplander  n.  A native or inhabitant of Lapland; called also Lapp.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Laplander" Quotes from Famous Books



... to be transparent, of Christianity, and with the former were mixed up traces of a still more ancient world which I afterwards came upon again among the Laplanders. When visiting in 1870, with Prince Napoleon, the huts of a Laplander encampment near Tromsoe, I felt some of my earliest recollections live again in the features of several women and children and in certain customs and traits of character. It occurred to me that in ancient times there might have been admixtures between ...
— Recollections of My Youth • Ernest Renan

... as a New Zealander; and his stomach, in a state of heathen darkness to the humanising beauties of goose and apple-sauce, might, with unblessed appetite, have fed upon the flesh of his enemies. He might, as a Laplander, have driven a sledge, and fed upon walrus-blubber; and now is he an Englishman—a Christian—a carriage holder, ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 1, December 25, 1841 • Various



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