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Maritime

• 1 n. Rare the Canadian provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island.

  See also: Maritime Provinces  

  • 1904  Like the rest "of the Maritime" the island of Prince Edward received its quota of loyalists

• 2 n. (used attributively) of or having to do with the Maritime Provinces or Maritimers.

  See also: Maritime Provinces  Maritimer  

  • 1957  He knows it . . . if he is an eastern man, when the native orchids dance in lady-slippers, the swamp maples spill arterial blood, and the succulent fiddlehead excites the Maritime palate.
  • 1959  Maritime lobstering began in the 1850's and by 1870 the delectable crustacean had appeared on dinner tables from Maine to California.
  • 1964  He said Maritime union would result in a two per cent saving in administrative costs. . . .