Definitions

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  • noun Indigenous Melanesian inhabitant of New Caledonia.

Etymologies

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1910. From French canaque, probably, from English kanaka ("a Hawaiian"), from Hawaiian kanaka ("person").

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Examples

  • Donald P. Kanak is chairman of Prudential Corporation Asia.

    The Five Races That Lie Ahead For China Donald P. Kanak 2010

  • Lovecraft's story brilliantly inverts the colonialist understanding of the Cargo Cult by demonstrating that the Other the non-white, the "Kanak," the foreign is the far more sophisticated myth, one with a better claim both on the past and the future than white Massachusetts Protestant Christianity.

    Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2007

  • Could this be because Brooker co-wrote this one with Kanak Huq, also known as Konnie, who by happy coincidence is his missus?

    TV review: Black Mirror; Piers Morgan's Life Stories: Peter Andre; This is Justin Bieber 2011

  • The gardens affirm the prevalence of Kanak culture as the Tjibaou Cultural Center by Renzo Piano carries history and mythology that have been around for 3,000 years into the modern day.

    Alla Kazovsky: "Live-by-Design" Wholeheartedly Alla Kazovsky 2010

  • When the Renzo Piano Workshop won an international competition to design the Tjibaou Cultural Center in Noumea, a Pacific island territory in New Caledonia, the goal was to recognize and honor the culture of the Kanak, the indigenous people of the land.

    Alla Kazovsky: "Live-by-Design" Wholeheartedly Alla Kazovsky 2010

  • To the defiant Danyèl Waro of La Réunion, for his maloya songs; to the Kanak poetess Déwé Gorodey, who defied the colonial powers all the way to prison; to the rebellious Abdourahman Waberi.

    Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio - Nobel Lecture 2008

  • Opened-up and left as if unfinished, they are connected by a long, gently curving enclosed walkway, reminiscent of the ceremonial alley of the traditional Kanak village.

    Alla Kazovsky: "Live-by-Design" Wholeheartedly Alla Kazovsky 2010

  • Opened-up and left as if unfinished, they are connected by a long, gently curving enclosed walkway, reminiscent of the ceremonial alley of the traditional Kanak village.

    Alla Kazovsky: "Live-by-Design" Wholeheartedly Alla Kazovsky 2010

  • The gardens affirm the prevalence of Kanak culture as the Tjibaou Cultural Center by Renzo Piano carries history and mythology that have been around for 3,000 years into the modern day.

    Alla Kazovsky: "Live-by-Design" Wholeheartedly Alla Kazovsky 2010

  • Based on the shape of the traditional Kanak ceremonial "Great" houses, the ten structures comprising The Center belong to the landscape.

    Alla Kazovsky: "Live-by-Design" Wholeheartedly Alla Kazovsky 2010

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