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Genevese

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Ge·ne·van  (j-nvn) also Gen·e·vese (jn-vz, -vs)
adj.
1. Of or relating to Geneva, Switzerland, or its inhabitants.
2. Of or relating to the teachings of John Calvin in Geneva; Calvinistic.
n.
1. A native or inhabitant of Geneva, Switzerland.
2. A Calvinist.
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The Imperial army, strictly speaking, was one third composed of Dutch, Belgians, men from the borders of the Rhine, Piedmontese, Swiss, Genevese, Tuscans, Romans, inhabitants of the Thirty-second Military Division, of Bremen, of Hamburg, and so on: it included scarcely a hundred and forty thousand who spoke French.
War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
I am by birth a Genevese, and my family is one of the most distinguished of that republic.
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Just so; and is it the custom of the Genevese to give their children English appellatives?
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