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

The average oil-burning landsman, shivering over November heating bills, may well ask: What's so wrong with that?

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Farmer, goatherd, cattleherd, hunter or artisan, the landsman looks at the ocean as at a salt unsteady realm that has nothing to do with him at all.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin