alpish

Adjective capitalized: Alpish

Alpish (comparative more Alpish, superlative most Alpish)

1. (relational, uncommon) Of or pertaining to the Alps, a mountain range in Western and Central Europe; Alpine.
   • Theſe plants are ſtrangers in England,their naturall countrie is the alpiſh mountaines of Heluetia.1597, John Gerarde, “Of mountaine Sanicle” (chapter 263), in The Herball or Generall Hiſtorie of Plantes, London: Iohn Norton, page 645
   • We have seen that Gerarde mentions it, and he may have derived, directly or indirectly, his "Beare's Eares" from Clusius, who in 15S2 introduced from the "Alpish" mountains of the Tyrol to Belgium Primula Auricula and a plant supposed to be a natural hybrid, P. pubescens.1878 April 27, “The Auricula”, in The Gardeners' Chronicle, volume IX, number 226, page 526, column 3
2. (broadly, uncommon) Mountainous, alpine.
   • For in the midſt of thy moſt Alpiſh waies, / when ruinous rocks did threat to end thy daies, / No doubt,thou couldſt haue wiſh:thyſelfe at home, / To liue,and lay thy bones in ſweete Odcombe.1611, Richardus Badley, “In praiſe of the moſt obſeruant Trauel Mr. Thomas Coryate of Odcombe, and of his moſt Axiopiſticall Hodæpory”, in Thomas Coryat, editor, Coryat's Crudities: Hastily gobled up...
   • The country is near enough the Alpish region of Galicia and Asturias to be blessed with showers, and ample verdure is the result.1879, James Albert Harrison, chapter XVIII, in Spain in Profile: A Summer Among the Olives and Aloes, Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Company, page 369