Ceylonese
Americanadjective
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Origin of Ceylonese
First recorded in 1790–1800; Ceylon + -ese
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Her success encouraged the Ceylonese government to allow women to study law in the country.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2022
De Silva gave Ceylonese autonomy a new architecture.
From New York Times ● Feb. 19, 2022
It’s during the entrance of Leila, the young priestess charged with protecting her Ceylonese fishing community from the perils of the sea.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 12, 2016
After independence in 1948, while successive political dynasties embraced socialism, nationalism and the dog-eat-dog-ism, the Ceylonese were treated to international cricket legends in transit.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 13, 2011
It is a fact infamous to the Ceylonese, that an island, which might easily support twenty millions of people, has been liable to famine, not unfrequently, with a population of fifteen hundred thousand.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 by Various
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