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Swabe ‎(plural Swabes)

(archaic, rare) A Swabian.
- 1745, Thomas Salmon, Modern History Or the Present State of All Nations, volume 2, page 29:
  A Brandenburgher will hardly understand a Misnian, or a Swabe either of them.
- (Can we date this quote?), A Peep at Bosnia, in Sharpe's London Magazine, volume 2/3:
  […] the same horse had once carried two travelling Swabes from Kosteinitza to Sarajewo […]