Alsatianness

Noun

Alsatianness (usually uncountable, plural Alsatiannesses)

1. (usually) The quality of being Alsatian.
   • Two interlocutors did not wish to emphasize their Alsatianness over and above their Frenchness: ‘I am French, born in Alsace. I am not chauvinistic’, ‘We were born here. I spent the war years here. I would have liked to have been born somewhere else, especially because of some people with limited...2000, J. Broadbridge, “Alsatian-speakers in Southern Alsace”, in German Minorities in Europe, page 58
   • At the same time the play celebrates Alsatianness in terms that are neither German nor French yet incorporates French and German elements—an Alsatianness transcending the Franco-German dichotomy, symbolized by the coiffe.2008, Detmar Klein, “Becoming Alsatian: Anti-German and Pro-French Cultural Propaganda in Alsace, 1898–1914”, in French Music, Culture, and National Identity, 1870–1939, University of Rochester...