单词 | Corfiote |
释义 | Corfiote, a. and n.|ˈkɔːfɪəʊt| Also Corfiot. [f. Corfu, after Cypriote.] Of or pertaining to, an inhabitant of, the Greek island of Corfu.
1835N. P. Willis Pencillings by Way ii. vi. 73 The Corfiotes were taunted with their slavish submission. 1877Encycl. Brit. VI. 396/1 The Corfiot peasantry are reputed the idlest of all the Ionians. 1923Contemp. Rev. Oct. 412 Corfiote neutrality during the Greco-Turkish war. Ibid. 413 No Corfiote could be induced to get her off the rocks. 1955Times 31 May 8/5 It would have been gracious..if the Corfiotes had celebrated the memory of that early sports patron by coupling his name with that of Lord Byron. 1964History Today Sept. 624/1 It was otherwise with the demolitions, of which every Corfiot was a spectator. |

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