Vandemonian

/ ˌvæn dəˈməʊnɪən /

noun

1. a native or inhabitant of the former Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania)

adjective

1. of or relating to Van Diemen's Land or its inhabitants

Example Sentences

At the center of these driven and desperate souls is the fearsomely capable Black Bill, an aboriginal Vandemonian raised by whites and driven by his own inscrutable code, a blend of cruel pragmatism and ancestral magic.

From Seattle Times

At the center of these driven and desperate souls is the fearsomely capable Black Bill, an aboriginal Vandemonian raised by whites and driven by his own inscrutable code, a blend of cruel pragmatism and ancestral magic.

From Seattle Times

That autocrat ordered the sullen-visaged 'Vandemonian,' as the warders designated him, to undergo several days in the 'box' on bread and water.

From Project Gutenberg

This dislike to him arose, from the circumstance of his having a strong “Vandemonian expression” of countenance; and I had a great prejudice against those who, in the colonies, are called “old lags.”

From Project Gutenberg

When it is further remembered: that the principle amusement of the most respectable of the gold-diggers, is that of holding social converse in their tents, or around their evening camp-fires, it will appear less strange, that amongst so many “men of character” one should become acquainted with not a few “romances of real life”—such as that of the “Vandemonian” who became my associate in the “sweet vale of Avoca,” and which is here recorded, as one of many a “convict’s story,” of which I have been the confidant.

From Project Gutenberg