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- proper noun Archaic spelling of
Sinhalese .
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Examples
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If she had passed Mme. Swann in the street, she would tell us when she came home: “I saw Mme. Swann in all her war-paint; she must have been embarking on some triumphant offensive against the Massachutoes, or the Cingalese, or the Tromberts.”
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I expressed an intense desire to go there and see these Cingalese, one of whom had called Mme. Blatin an old cow.
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This munificent charity from the man of the waters to the poor Cingalese was accepted with a trembling hand.
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Cingalese, on our way home we saw coming in our direction, and followed by two others who seemed to be acting as her escort, an elderly but still attractive woman cloaked in a dark mantle and capped with a little bonnet tied beneath her chin with a pair of ribbons.
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Tall Sikhs, whose hair and beards have never known scissors or razor, and who stride along with a swagger and high-caste dignity; effeminate Cingalese; Hindoo clerks, smirking, conceited and dandified too, according to their own notions; almost naked palkee-bearers, who nevertheless, if there is the slightest shower, put up an umbrella to protect their shaven crowns; up-country girls with rings in their noses and rings on their toes; little
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873 Various
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All the books of importance in Pali and Cingalese, relative to the religion of Buddhoo, in Ceylon, are written on lamina of these leaves, with either a brass or an iron style.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 361, Supplementary Issue (1829) Various
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Ceylon, who adds that the Cingalese would often request of him to permit them to look for the hare through his telescope, and exclaim in raptures that they saw it.
Moon Lore Timothy Harley
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The Kandyans are brave and fearless in appearance; they never wear the Cingalese comb, as this is a badge of the low country.
Travels in the Far East Ellen Mary Hayes Peck
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An account taken by Spence Hardy from Cingalese books of a comparatively modern date.
Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 Frank F. Ellinwood
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They have seven skins, whereas the Cingalese pearls have only six.
Southern Arabia Mabel Bent
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