Canarese
Americanadjective
plural
Canaresenoun
Example Sentences
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Karnata, Karnataka.—One of the five orders of Pānch Dravida or southern Brāhmans, inhabiting the Canarese country.
From The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) by Russell, R. V. (Robert Vane)
Brāhmans of the Carnatic, or the Canarese country.
From The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II by Russell, R. V. (Robert Vane)
Of course mistakes must be still more numerous in those translations which pious men have lately made into Bengalee, Hindostanee, Tamul, Canarese, and other Oriental tongues.
From Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron
Dravidian, dra-vid′i-an, n. of the non-Aryan stock to which the Tamil, Telugu, Canarese, and Malayālam speaking peoples of Southern India belong: of the languages of these races.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
The Scriptures are translated into the Canarese language, and may be had everywhere at a very cheap rate indeed.
From Old Daniel by Unsigned
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