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West Virginian   /wɛst vərdʒˈɪnjən/   Listen
West Virginian

noun
1.
A native or resident of West Virginia.





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"West Virginian" Quotes from Famous Books



... heavily by some of the recent failures, and there's been a terrible shrinkage in his values. I don't mean merely in the stock of paint on hand, but in a kind of competition which has become very threatening. You know about that West Virginian paint?" ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells
... accompanied Rosecrans's column, and his cool efficiency was so marked that I applied for him as quartermaster upon my staff. He remained with me till I finally left West Virginia in 1863, and I never saw his superior in handling trains in the field. He was a West Virginian, volunteering from civil life, whose outfit was a good business education and an indomitable rough energy ...
— Military Reminiscences of the Civil War V1 • Jacob Dolson Cox


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