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Etymology

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Compare German Schwabe.

Noun

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Swabe (plural Swabes)

  1. (archaic, rare) A Swabian.
    • 1745, Thomas Salmon, Modern History Or the Present State of All Nations, volume 2, page 29:
      A Brandenburgher will hardly understand a Misnian, or a Swabe either of them.
    • c. 1846-1848, an Austrian medical office [name not given], "A Peep at Bosnia", in Sharpe's London Magazine, volume 2/3:
      [] the same horse had once carried two travelling Swabes from Kosteinitza to Sarajewo []

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