landsman
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She married a landsman, who became a diamond merchant; in the early nineteen-fifties, the couple resettled in the Bronx, and some fifteen years later, as empty-nesters, they went back to Israel.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 8, 2017
He had the tolerance of a landsman, the faith that comes with witnessing the changing seasons year in and year out.
From Time ● Jul. 25, 2012
The average oil-burning landsman, shivering over November heating bills, may well ask: What's so wrong with that?
From Time Magazine Archive
Washington had the tolerance of a landsman, the faith that comes with witnessing the changing seasons year in and year out, the sensitivity that accumulates from watching buds burst and colts grow.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mr. Whitby had likely assumed that I was a landsman to him, provided Frankie hadn’t told him that outright.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
“Our people, we’re schmoozers,” Bacall lamented as he prodded his landsmen to move it along.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2023
“I love my landsmen, but I will never ever understand them,” she posted on Facebook two weeks ago, after a young mother in her community died from COVID-19 in late November.
From Slate ● Dec. 6, 2020
The pitch from the gas companies’ representatives, known as landsmen, were effective, she said.
From New York Times ● Sep. 23, 2011
It is landsmen who speak of 'the call of the sea.'
From Time Magazine Archive
No one can say for sure where he was killed, whether some hostile landsmen or the sea, the stormwaves on the deep sea, got the best of him.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
