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Easterling

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English

Etymology

Possibly modeled on Dutch oosterling. Compare sterling.

Noun

Easterling (plural Easterlings)

  1. (historical) A native of the East; an Easterner.
  2. (historical, British) A Baltic trader.
    • 1587, Raphael Holinshed, “Henrie the Seuenth”, in Holinshed's Chronicles of England in Six Volumes. Vol. III. England, London: J. Johnson, page 508:
      And that most greeued [grieved] them, the Easterlings being at libertie, brought to the realme such wares as they were woont, so serued their customers throughout the realme.

Proper noun

Easterling

  1. An English surname

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