Cingalese
Americanadjective
plural
CingaleseExample Sentences
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I felt that I could have eaten almost any thing, and, truly, one needs such an appetite to get down the dreadful black-draught which the Cingalese remorselessly administer to travelers, under the name of coffee.
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On one occasion he had been quite deserted: even his old cook ran away, and he found himself with only a little Cingalese boy, and his rice, biscuit, and dried fish, all but exhausted.
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It was immediately translated into the Cingalese language; and, flattered by the appropriation, Miss Baillie, in 1828, published another tragedy—"The Bride," a story of Ceylon, and dedicated in particular to the Cingalese.
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Sinhalese, sin′ha-lēz, n. and adj. the same as Cingalese and Singhalese.
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The Cingalese relate nearly the same things of their "Budha."
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