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Down-Easter
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a native of eastern Canada.
See: down East
Quotations
1865
[At the masquerade] Jean Baptiste was represented by more than one habitant, and there were Indian Chiefs, some looking more terrible than the great Tecumseh himself, a Down-Easter in bed-gown, Sam Slick, [and] John Bull.
1916
In many a growing town on or near a new railway these Rip Van Winkles croaked over the menace of immigrants and colonist cars and down-easters hanging out business signs on the streets of the furpost and cowboy towns.
1958
There were two kinds of Down-Easters, those from the Maritimes and those from Ontario; each was as much superior to the other as the way they did things down east was superior to the way people did things out here.