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Definition of Downtowners
1. downtowner [n] - See also: downtowner
Lexicographical Neighbors of Downtowners
Literary usage of Downtowners
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ancestry, Early Life and War Record of James Oliver, M. D.: Practicing by James Oliver (1916)
"I was at once hailed as a worthy member, to be one of the boys of the downtowners.
I think a Miss Lewis of South Royalston, afterwards the wife of Dr. ..."
2. Historic Tales of Olden Time: Concerning the Early Settlement and Progress by John Fanning Watson (1833)
"They were the Achilles and the Patroclus of the " downtowners. " The Northern
Liberties about Camptown and Pegg's run used to be in agitation almost every ..."
3. Post Ex Sub Dis: Urban Fragmentations and Constructions by Ghent Urban Studies Team (2002)
"... over a district in the process of gentrifying, pushing out poets to make room
for new downtowners fond of trendy restaurants and galleries. ..."
4. History of Old Germantown, with a Description of Its Settlement and Some by John Palmer Garber, C. Henry Kain, Naaman Henry Keyser, Horace Ferdinand McCann (1907)
"... the people of this part of the town were somewhat better off in this world's
goods than were the residents of the upper part, so the ''downtowners" ..."
5. Letters to the Young on Progress in Pudsey During the Last Sixty Years by Joseph Lawson (1887)
"downtowners playing up-towners ; in wet weather, bad roads, and played through
the village ; breaking windows, striking bystanders, the ball driven into ..."
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