donner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: donners
Etymology: From don + -er.
Senses: examples: text: O sweet little wearers of round hats. O dainty donners of Mauve silks and sprigged muslins—I hear a voice saying—there was a time when all the ladies of Rome, with perfumes and fans, went daily to the Colosseum to see gigantic slaves chop each other to pieces; […]
ref: 1861 June 29, “Old Rome in Crystal”, in Charles Dickens, editor, All the Year Round. […], volume V, number 114, London: […] Messrs. Chapman and Hall, […], page 324, column 2:
text: “Gathered in circle, / With clangour of armour, / Our youth struck the mighty / Donners of armlets: / Limbs dead and bloody / Glutted the death-birds. / Who shall avenge now / The mighty belt-wearer?”
ref: 1871, Robert [Williams] Buchanan, The Land of Lorne, Including the Cruise of the “Tern” to the Outer Hebrides. […], volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, […], page 186:
text: Tony Rossitto, grand opera tenor, who is in the ranks at Camp Sherman, is spending the week here and has been permitted to sing at the barracks and Broadway Theater. He is beiing^([sic]) billed about the town as “The Soldier Caruso From Camp Sherman” and “The Fighter With the Golden Throat.” Mr. Rossitto was formerly a member of the Chicago Grand Opera Company. His beautiful tenor has won many friends for him both among his fellow donners of khaki and those civilians who have heard him.
ref: 1918 August 31, “[The Concert & Opera Field] Singer in the Ranks”, in The Billboard, volume XXX, number 35, Cincinnati, Oh.: The Billboard Publishing Company, page 20, column 3:
text: Seven recruits were accepted by the United States army at the Transportation building Wednesday. Of the seven new donners of the khaki, six were old service men.
ref: 1919 July 3, “Seven Recruits Join Army on Wednesday”, in The Atlanta Constitution, volume LII, number 18, Atlanta, Ga., page twenty:
text: “Happy are only the donners of the waist-cloth whose minds always delight in meditating on the texts of the Upanishads.”
ref: 1922, Yogiraja’s Disciple Maitreya (Buddha-Gaya), Discovery of the Universal Religion through a Comparative Theology Based on the Faiths of the Forefathers, London: W. Thacker & Co; Calcutta; Simla: Thacker, Spink & Co, page 59:
text: Early donners of dinner-jackets, décolleté, and toppers were about Park Avenue.
ref: 1932 March, Philip Wylie, “Angela regrets an Invitation: A story of the Wild Wallaces”, in Edwin Balmer, editor, Redbook Magazine, New York, N.Y.: The McCall Company, page 73, column 1:
text: Way and Brinton, football player and student respectively, donners of African costumes, and ministers in the making were real friends, and examples of demeanor.
ref: 1937, “Angel Factory”, in The Dart: The Annual Publication of the Dickinson Seminary and Junior College at Williamsport, Pennsylvania, volume 15, Williamsport, Pa.: The Williamsport Printing and Binding Company:
text: The season 1944-45 saw the donners of the purple and gold of Loras take seven out of eight conference games . . .
ref: 1945, The Purgold, volume XVII, Dubuque, Ia.: Loras College, page one hundred nine:
text: For the first few weeks the rush of voluntary donners of white were mostly in the Fourth Region of the North American Continent.
ref: 1954 November, D. A. Jourdan, “Change of Color”, in Robert [Augustine] W[ard] Lowndes, editor, Science Fiction Quarterly, volume 3, number 3, Holyoke, Mass.: Columbia Publications, Inc., page 42, column 1:
text: Honest and veteran Congressmen who have grown grey in the service of the country very often find themselves pushed aside by these new donners of the white cap.
ref: 1957, “[Election Manifestos] Communist Party of India”, in S. L. Poplai, editor, National Politics and 1957 Elections in India, Delhi: Metropolitan Book Co. Private Ltd., page 106:
text: A donner of casual clothes, this fun loving gal enjoys swimming, skating, and dancing.
ref: 1962, The Maldonian, Malden, Mass.: Malden High School, page 172:
text: “Donners of black” float by this “very cool” Lower East Side bar for its “hip” vibe and “awesome DJ”; […]
ref: 2001, Curt Gathje, editor, 2002 New York City Nightlife, New York, N.Y.: Zagat Survey, LLC, →ISBN, page 176:
text: Rock of the world, raise the lofty house of Aaron, the donners of the Urim and Thumin [breastplate worn by the high priest of the biblical temple], they serve you in holiness.
ref: 2001, Moses Ashear, translated by Joshua Levisohn, “Listening Guide 59: Mifalot Elohim (‘The Works of God’; pizmon)”, in Kay Kaufman Shelemay, Soundscapes: Exploring Music in a Changing World, New York, N.Y.: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 235:
text: COAL TRAIN: Marching band wieners. Tuba lards. Flautists. Triangle dingers. Auto-harp toters. Sniffers of fuzzy-tipped drumsticks, owners of spit-caked clarinets, and donners of fringy polyester uniforms.
ref: 2011, Sean Beaudoin, You Killed Wesley Payne, New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 362:
glosses: One who dons (something).