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Snowdonian, a.|snəʊˈdəʊnɪən|
[f. the place-name Snowdon (see def.) + -ian.]
Of or pertaining to Snowdon, a lofty mountain in North Wales; relating to, found at or near, Snowdon.
1820Shelley Let. Maria Gisborne 239 The milk-white Snowdonian Antelope. 1829H. L. Jones (title), Illustrations of the Natural Scenery of the Snowdonian Mountains. 1855A. Sedgwick British Palæozoic Rocks Introd. p. xli. note, The Snowdonian fossils were both embedded amongst, and overlaid by, contemporaneous plutonic rocks. 1897Watts-Dunton Aylwin xii. iv, Those Snowdonian spirits which her music was supposed to have evoked from the mountain air. |
