DCHP-3

British-American

Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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adj.

of or pertaining to British America and, after 1776, to Canada.

Quotations

1765
It is now the general Opinion, that should the British American Colonies be allowed to send Members to Parliament, such Gentlemen must be Natives of the Province they represent. . . .
1959
With them they brought, along with their loyalty to the Crown, most of the habits, virtues and limitations acquired by their ancestors in the first century and a half of the British-American experience.