landsman
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She married a landsman, who became a diamond merchant; in the early nineteen-fifties, the couple resettled in the Bronx, and some fifteen years later, as empty-nesters, they went back to Israel.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 8, 2017
He had the tolerance of a landsman, the faith that comes with witnessing the changing seasons year in and year out.
From Time ● Jul. 25, 2012
After this extensive list of deficiencies, the best thing the ordinary landsman can find to say about the fleet is, "Well, it floats."
From Time Magazine Archive
The average oil-burning landsman, shivering over November heating bills, may well ask: What's so wrong with that?
From Time Magazine Archive
It was supposed to be the home of a landsman, a good man who would help us find work.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
“Our people, we’re schmoozers,” Bacall lamented as he prodded his landsmen to move it along.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2023
“I love my landsmen, but I will never ever understand them,” she posted on Facebook two weeks ago, after a young mother in her community died from COVID-19 in late November.
From Slate ● Dec. 6, 2020
The pitch from the gas companies’ representatives, known as landsmen, were effective, she said.
From New York Times ● Sep. 23, 2011
Weatherbeaten yachtsmen, grizzled veterans of the briny off-shore deep, were somewhat inclined to shake their heads over such cushy concessions to landsmen as wicker chairs, percolators, automobile steering wheels.
From Time Magazine Archive
No one can say for sure where he was killed, whether some hostile landsmen or the sea, the stormwaves on the deep sea, got the best of him.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
