Easterling
English
Etymology
Possibly modeled on Dutch oosterling. Compare sterling.
Noun
Easterling (plural Easterlings)
- (historical) A native of the East; an Easterner.
- (historical, Britain) A Baltic trader.
- 1587, Raphael Holinshed, “Henrie the Seuenth”, in Holinshed's Chronicles of England in Six Volumes. Vol. III. England, London: J. Johnson, page 508:
- And that most greeued [grieved] them, the Easterlings being at libertie, brought to the realme such wares as they were woont, so serued their customers throughout the realme.
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