Potato Germans

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A group of German families who settled in the heathlands of central Jutland in Denmark during the mid-1700s. historical,plural,plural-only
    — Then there were the French Huguenot tobacco farmers (early 1700s), the “Potato Germans” and paid German soldiers (late 1700s), and Moravian crafts people (late 1700s).

词源

Calque of Danish Kartoffeltyskere, in reference to the cultivation of potatoes in the areas they settled.
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