Meaning of Antwerpenaar | Babel Free

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A native or inhabitant of Antwerp.

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“It is part of the prison constructed in one of the angles of the citadel, which was built by the Duke of Alva to keep the rebellious Antwerpenaars in check.”

“At the head of the famous Antwerpenaars belonging to the immediate circle of Rubens stands Van Dyck.”

“In helping him, these Antwerpenaars were risking not only death but torture—for he had Fräulein’s secrets.”

“[…] his fellow-citizens—they take pride in not being Antwerpenaars themselves.”

“The spacious and idealistic plans of Willem Usselincx, one of the many ex-Antwerpenaars resident in Amsterdam, for the colonization of the New World as a new world, found no sympathetic hearing in realistic Amsterdam, and the West India Company was modelled fairly closely after the East India Company.”

“In the early 1560s the Protestants there were strengthened both quantitatively and qualitatively by an influx of gentry and wealthy Antwerpenaars, who put this previously small group in touch with their co-religionists at Antwerp.”

“It is otherwise difficult to account for the exodus of religious from the monasteries, the sharp decline in the generosity of Antwerpenaars towards their senior parish church throughout the 1520s, and the slump in the sales of indulgences in the diocese of Utrecht at the same time.”

“Gentenaars don't trust Antwerpenaars any more than Carolos the Liégeois, and it is a good guess that the present pressure for decentralization will not stop at the language group level at which it is currently keenest.”

“To outsiders, they extended a message of welcome and reassurance, emphasising the fairness and probity of their commercial and legal institutions; to the less prosperous Antwerpenaars watching or taking part in the procession, the repeated message is that what is good for the Cooplieden is good for Antwerp and all its inhabitants, and that dissension and unrest are sinful and against nature.”

“The Antwerpenaars seem to be particularly interested in the herring supply in this account, a fact suggesting that improbable as it may seem on first glance, the large quantities of herring mentioned in the account of 1386-1387 may have been proceeding to Antwerp through Dendermonde after being taken to Ghent over the Lieve canal from Bruges.”

“Antwerpenaars have no such inhibitions, and know that – in their city, at least – this call will bring forth a man-sized glass of De Koninck (which translates as “The King”).”

“At the request of several south German and Italian merchants and transporters (including the Jenisch, Welser, and Fugger firms), as well as some native Antwerpenaars, the city agreed to build a terminal of sorts for the overland trade with Germany and parts south.”

“By 1510 Antwerp was able to boast of three official chambers, The Gillyflower (De Violieren), The Marigold (De Goudbloem), and The Olive Branch (De Olijftak). Although this public support of rhetorician groups was not quite in the same league as in Ghent and Brussels, which supported four each, certainly Antwerpenaars could feel considerable pride in their patronage of three very active drama societies.”

“An Antwerp institution since its beginnings in 1972 and run by the family Espantoso, Las Mañas attracts not only the Spanish community, but Antwerpenaars seeking some sunshine and sangria.”

“The Antwerpenaars feared that this regulation would put a mortgage on the future of the port.”

“In 1541 Antwerpenaars consumed almost 170,000 liters of beer from Hoegaarden and the small village of Zoutleeuw.”

“To be preferred over these, especially the choir of St. Jacob’s was admired, strangers and Antwerpenaars alike, for its ‘most exquisite, rare, and illustrious elegance, with so lucid and spacious an ambulatory, and surrounded on all sides, as it were, by marble chapels.’”

“Gentenaars perhaps still feel they inhabit a capital city and tend to think big, if not quite as big as the Antwerpenaars.”

“And Antwerpenaars (residents of Antwerp) will tell you that they speak better Flemish than Brugeans; if you visit more remote rural districts you will find even more regional differences.”

“In his opinion, this was a typically Dutch response, and others would not do it the same way. But Antwerpenaars also fashioned a self-image out of their flexibility and daring. Both ports measured themselves against the other.”

“Similarly, Farnese’s offer of reconciliation to the city of Antwerp in November 1584 was reprinted with the Antwerpenaars’ reply in Antwerp, Delft, Dordrecht and Amsterdam.”

“The valour of the Crusaders which were emphasized in Scribani’s account also gave him the opportunity to expatiate on the courage of the Antwerpenaars who, as vassals of Godfroy, had accompanied him on his journey to the Holy Land.”

“The cozy interior oozes authentic charm and feels like it’s been the family living room of Antwerpenaars for generations.”

“It involved 2000 Antwerpenaars, who helped to measure levels of nitrogen dioxide by placing measuring tubes and sensors outside their windows.”

“As long as it did not lead to excesses (and, as stated earlier, persistent noisy squabbles), twentieth-century Antwerpenaars tended not to intervene in marital disputes.”

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