Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In the Philippine Islands, a native obliged, under Spanish rule, to render the personal service called
polo . Seepolo .
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Examples
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All were adult, well formed, and of the laboring or "polista" class.
The Negrito and Allied Types in the Philippines and The Ilongot or Ibilao of Luzon David Prescott Barrows 1913
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