Swabe

English

Etymology

Compare German Schwabe.

Noun

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.

   • (Can we date this quote?), 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 […]

Anagrams

• Besaw, abwes, besaw