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Orcadian
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Orkney Islands.
Example Sentences:
(1) Whatever the reason, the great temple complex – on which Orcadians had lavished almost a millennium's effort – was abandoned and forgotten for the next 4,000 years.
(2) Hair of a "smoky-grey" tone, clearly unrelated to greying with age, and not represented on the Fischer-Saller scale, is reported and was found to be predominantly a feature of Orcadian males.
(3) Like my 6th Symphony: it knew that George Mackay Brown [the great Orcadian poet, a close friend of Davies’s] was very ill and was going to die.
(4) Here in northern California”, she observed bleakly, “place-based languages are dying out swiftly.” Picking up my post each morning became an adventure: one week brought a “weather-book” of Orcadian wind and snow words, with a head of bog-cotton pressed between the pages; and a word list found “on a faded piece of paper between the 100 or so sheets of an account my father left of his early years in a working-class and Methodist family, in a remote Yorkshire dale”.
(5) Though their genepool has been modified to some extent by immigrant genes, it is suggested that the Orcadians represent the remains of a relict population, in the same way as, but different from, those of the Gaelic fringe.
(6) There is evidence that the Shetlanders retain an element of an ultra-European population extreme in some gene frequencies and so, like the Orcadians, may be regarded as much diluted relict of an ancient population.
(7) Discarded stone tools and shards of elegant pottery also indicate that the early Orcadians were developing an increasingly sophisticated society.
(8) He then had a vivid dream in which he was (stick with us) visited by the ghost of Betty Corrigall, an Orcadian girl who died in the 1770s.
(9) Genetic distance and principal components analyses of gene frequency and relationship matrices suggest that the closest Orcadian affinities are with the North Sea populations rather than with Atlantic.
(10) Plater is a regular visitor to the islands and acquired the status of an honorary Orcadian when he adapted George Mackay Brown's novel Greenvoe as a community drama for the St Magnus festival in 2000.
(11) Gene frequencies from a sample of Orkney islanders relating to red cell blood groups, red cell isoenzymes, serum proteins and HLA types indicate that the Orcadians are situated at the extreme of the European range in many systems.
(12) This was the first of many pieces inspired by the poetry of the Orcadian writer George Mackay Brown , with whom Maxwell Davies later collaborated on his opera The Martydom of St Magnus (1976), which was premiered in 1977 in Kirkwall CathedralThe recreation of ancient events that took place near the very same spot symbolised Maxwell Davies’s profound feeling of connection to his new home.
(13) You only have to shake a copy of the Orcadian [the weekly local newspaper] and ideas for plays fall out."
(14) Sex differences in the proportions in each category in both the Faroese (144 males, 130 females) and Orcadians (120 males, 126 females) were tested by x(2) and were not significant.
(15) The latter was a celebration of a famous Orcadian character, Willie Farquhar, who kept a shebeen on the island from the war years through to the 1960s, when the authorities closed him down.
(16) The festival was founded by Davies and the distinguished Orcadian poet George Mackay Brown, a regular at the Golden Slipper.
(17) A highly significant difference (1% level) was found in the proportions in the eight categories between the total Faroese and Orcadian samples.
(18) But the change was not all in the direction of island ruggedness and plain speaking, and in any case these “Orcadian” pieces still had a high level of dissonance, and had not entirely expunged traces of his 60s expressionist period.