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Madrileños


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  • Variants

    • Gatos
    • Madrid, Spain, residents
    • Madrilenes
    • Madrilenians
    • Matritenses
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    • found: Work cat.: Rodrigo, Joaquín. Guitar music. 3, 2021(Spanish composer who was a resident of Madrid for sixty years (1939-1999)) booklet, p. 2 (Joaquín Rodrigo (1901-1999)) (OCoLC)1267994354
    • found: Joaquín Rodrigo (Website), Sept. 19, 2022:Composer > Biography > Short biography (Joaquín Rodrigo was born in Sagunto (Valencia) on 22 November 1901; in 1927 moved to Paris to enrol at the École Normale de Musique; continued his studies of musicology in France at the Paris Conservatoire and at the Sorbonne and also worked in Germany, Austria and Switzerland before returning to Spain in 1939 to settle permanently in Madrid; died at his home in Madrid on 6 July 1999)
    • found: Britannica online, Sept. 19, 2022(Madrid, city, capital of Spain and of Madrid provincia (province); the city proper and province form a comunidad autónoma (autonomous community) in central Spain; The people of Madrid: a traditional nickname for the Madrileños is gatos ("cats"), originally coined in the Middle Ages as a reference to the ability of local troops to scale castle walls)
    • found: Dickson, P. Labels for locals, 2006(Madrid, Spain: Madrilenian (also an adjective) or Madrileño)
    • found: List of adjectivals and demonyms for cities, via Wikipedia, Sept. 19, 2022(Madrid: Madrilenian, Madrileño)
    • found: Wiktionary, Sept. 19, 2022:English (Madrileño (plural Madrileños): Someone from Madrid. Synonym: Madrilenian; Madrilenian (plural Madrilenians): Someone from Madrid. Synonyms: Madrilene, Madrileño; Madrilene (plural Madrilenes): Synonym of Madrilenian; someone from Madrid) Spanish (madrileño m (plural madrileños, feminine madrileña, feminine plural madrileñas): Madrilenian (a person from the city of Madrid or the Community of Madrid). Synonyms: gato, matritense; matritense m or f (plural matritenses): Madrilenian. Synonym: madrileño; gato m (plural gatos, feminine gata, feminine plural gatas): 7. (colloquial) Madrilenian (a person from Madrid). Synonym: madrileño)
    • found: Google search, Sept. 19, 2022(86,200 results for "Madrilenians"; 6,090,000 results for "Madrileños"; 30,100 results for "Madrilenes")
  • History Notes

    • [Established January 2023.]
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  • Change Notes

    • 2022-09-19: new
    • 2023-01-25: revised
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