Swiss

Definition

Of, from, or pertaining to Switzerland or the Swiss people.

Etymology

Adopted from Middle French Suisse in circa 1515, alongside the form Switzer directly loaned from German.

Example Sentences

• "The obstructive tendency attributed to the knot in spiritual matters appears in a Swiss superstition that if, in sewing a corpse into its shroud, you make a knot on the thread, it will hinder the soul of the deceased on its passage to eternity."
• "The government has said in a paper on the UK’s post-Brexit border operating model that it will “ensure that EU, EEA and Swiss citizens may also continue to use our e-passport gates and the existing queueing arrangements”."