Colonial
In English, a description for the factor of a colonial factory (i.e. settlement and/or garrison), while a formal station can already have a factor in charge (as in the British East India Company's 1603 established English station Bantam, which in March 1609 formally became a Factory, but remained under a Chief factor until its promotion in 1617 to Presidency of Bantam)
Furthermore as close rendering of the German equivalent Stationsleiter ('station leader'), notably in South Sea Schutzgebiete (colonial possessions).
Finally it occurs as loose rendering of the Dutch and Danish equivalents, Opperhoofd viz. Opperhoved.
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Famous quotes containing the word colonial:
“In colonial America, the father was the primary parent. . . . Over the past two hundred years, each generation of fathers has had less authority than the last. . . . Masculinity ceased to be defined in terms of domestic involvement, skills at fathering and husbanding, but began to be defined in terms of making money. Men had to leave home to work. They stopped doing all the things they used to do.”
—Frank Pittman (20th century)
“The North will at least preserve your flesh for you; Northerners are pale for good and all. There’s very little difference between a dead Swede and a young man who’s had a bad night. But the Colonial is full of maggots the day after he gets off the boat.”
—Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894–1961)
“Are you there, Africa with the bulging chest and oblong thigh? Sulking Africa, wrought of iron, in the fire, Africa of the millions of royal slaves, deported Africa, drifting continent, are you there? Slowly you vanish, you withdraw into the past, into the tales of castaways, colonial museums, the works of scholars.”
—Jean Genet (1910–1986)