a. and sb. [f. prec. + -AN.] A. adj. Of or belonging to Alsatia. B. sb. An inhabitant of Alsatia; a debtor or criminal in sanctuary.
1691. Luttrell, Brief Rel. (1857), II. 259. The benchers of the Inner Temple, having given orders for bricking up their little gate leading into Whitefryers … the Alsatians came and pull’d it down.
1704. Gentl. Instr. (1732), 491 (D.). Here he struck up with sharpers, scourers, and Alsatians.
1822. Scott, Nigel, xvii. (1878), 209. The true Alsatian bully.
