Indianapolitan

Indianapolitan

English

Adjective

Indianapolitan (comparative more Indianapolitan, superlative most Indianapolitan)

1. Of or from Indianapolis.
   • 1889 “Bobtail Cars”, in The New York Times‎, 1889-10-19, retrieved 2014-10-02

     "The Indianapolitan public accordingly abstains in considerable numbers from paying its fares, being moved by sympathy with labor..."

Noun

Indianapolitan (plural Indianapolitans)

1. A person from Indianapolis.[1857]
   • 1857 J. B. B. (1857), “A City of the West”, in The New England Farmer, volume 9, page 387

     "The Indianapolitans seem to be very civil and orderly people, a pattern of sobriety and good behavior, if we can infer anything on these points from the smallness of their police force, for this body, considered indispensable in most cities for the preservation of order, in this city numbers only eight, including a chief."

   • 1885 “A Missing Indianapolitan”, in The Chicago Daily Tribune‎, 1885-10-17, retrieved 2014-10-03
   • 1892 “Indianapolis, New-York, and Cholera”, in The New York Times‎, 1892-09-17, retrieved 2014-10-02

     "If the Indianapolitans could declare and enforce an effective embargo upon all outsiders, it is evident that Indianapolis would languish and die."

   • 1948 H. L. Mencken (October–December 1942), “What the People of American Towns Call Themselves”, in American Speech, volume 23, issue 3/4, Duke University Press, page 179
   • 1954 June 1, Draegert, Eva, “The Fine Arts in Indianapolis, 1875–1880”, in Indiana Magazine of History, volume 50, number 2, Trustees of Indiana University, page 105:

     "The earliest sculpture by an Indianapolitan was the statue of Benjamin Franklin by John Mahoney, erected in 1874 above the front doorway of the Franklin Insurance Company building in the southeast segment of the Circle."

See also

• Indianan