Raleighan

Noun

Raleighan (plural Raleighans)

1. A native or inhabitant of Raleigh, North Carolina, in the United States.
   • Subsequently, Jonathan Daniels, Truman's secretary and Yergan's fellow Raleighan, told a White House staffer that he knew the NNC president well, ...2006, David Henry Anthony, III, Max Yergan: Race Man, Internationalist, Cold Warrior, NYU Press, →ISBN
   • In the morning, like other wide-eyed Raleighans I crept out of my door and surveyed the devastation [of Hurricane Fran]. No street was passable; trees crossed every road, ...2007, Scott Huler, Defining the Wind: The Beaufort Scale and How a 19th-Century Admiral Turned Science into Poetry, Crown, →ISBN, page 3
2. A follower, imitator or scholar of Walter Raleigh.
   • […] Baconians proper, Raleighans, Stanleyites, Rutlanders, Marlowites, etc., have made it a strong argument against the Stratfordean's claim to […]1916, The Dial, page 456
   • ... the letter is replete with Raleighan echoes notwithstanding such rhetoric as "Woe, woe, woe.... Oh God.... Oh, what will my poor servants think."2015, Willard Mosher Wallace, Sir Walter Raleigh, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 198