Meaning of Genoese | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A native or inhabitant of the city of Genoa or surrounding province, Liguria, Italy.
2. The inhabitants of Genoa, collectively.
3. The dialect of Ligurian spoken in Genoa

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“America. One of the four parts of the world, ſo called from Americus Veſpuſius a Florentine, who with Columbus a Genoeſe, firſt diſcover'd this Country about the yeer 1492 which is moſt aptly called the New world; ….”

“However, John not liking a Partner in the Empire, left Conſtantinople, and retir'd to Tenedos, where he engag'd Francis Cataluze a Genoeſe to aſſiſt him, and with the Fleet under his Command, return'd to the Imperal City, compell'd Contacuzenus to quit the Empire; …”

“For at preſent the Greateſt, among the Genoeſe, are in part ſubjects to the monarchy of Spain …. The Spaniards tax them very high upon occaſion, and are ſo ſenſible of the advantage this gives them over the republick, that they will not ſuffer a Neapolitan to buy the lands of a Genoeſe, who muſt find a purchaſer among his own countrymen, if he has a mind to ſell.”

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