quarterite

English

Etymology

From quarter +‎ -ite.

Noun

quarterite (plural quarterites)

1. An inhabitant of a particular quarter.
   • 1939, Elliot Paul, The Mysterious Mickey Finn, Dover 2014, p. 101:

     The word that Ambrose Gring, formerly a quarterite and, according to the latest papers, one of the picture bandits, had died and that murder was suspected had permeated every nook of Montparnasse.

   • a. 1969, John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces:

     At Bourbon, Ignatius turned and began walking up toward Canal through the night's parade of tourists and Quarterites, among whom he did not look particularly strange.

Anagrams

• triquetrae