Gothamite
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of Gothamite
C20: from Gotham , a nickname for New York City
Example Sentences
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Bon vivant and wit Seamus O’Sullivan, a longtime staff writer of the Gothamite: Might this be Brendan Gill of the New Yorker?
From Washington Post • Jun. 3, 2015
While he serenades Manhattan with a smitten rendition of Cole Porter’s “I Happen to Like New York,” he lets us know that even as a Gothamite, he remains an easygoing, outdoors-loving Aussie.
From New York Times • Dec. 8, 2011
Every patriotic Gothamite, therefore, should rejoice at each successive indication of an improvement in architectural taste amongst us.
From Ups and Downs in the Life of a Distressed Gentleman by Stone, William L. (William Leete)
The native borned Gothamite mite have notissed, a short time since, a venerable lookin' ex-Statesman, dressed in a becomin' soot of clothes and a slick lookin' white hat.
From Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 28, October 8, 1870 by Various
It may even be doubted, by those who have read it, whether “cutting blocks with a razor” is such a Gothamite proceeding as it is sometimes held to be.
From Matthew Arnold by Saintsbury, George
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