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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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(used attributively) of or having to do with Englishmen or subjects of King George, the English king when white traders first appeared on the Pacific coast, the term being adopted with this meaning into the Chinook Jargon and used in contrast to Boston.
Quotations
1813
See those few King George people who come down the river?
1860
He stated that he was not afraid, for he had a hundred dollars, and if he was put into jail, he could pay his hundred dollars to the King George people, and they would not let the Bostons hurt him.
1958
The Indians had respected the promises of the Great White Queen--or as she was known "King George's Klootchman"--and they relied upon the word of the Hudson's Bay Company.