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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Quotation dates: 1632
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Plantator, n. [Late L. plantātor, f. plantāre to plant.] A transplanter (of a foreign custom); a settler. — 1632 Lithgow Trav. x. 431.
A great discouragment for our collonizd plantators there [sc. in Ireland] 1632 Ib. 438.
[The French:] first they be imitators; … and lastly, your plantators, in all the varieties of vanity
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