Cingalese

American  

[sing-guh-leez, -lees] / ˌsɪŋ gəˈliz, -ˈlis /

adjective

• Cingalese
  plural

1. Singhalese.

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Cingalese

The strain of voiding dead blood cells, manufacturing new ones and trying to live on a deficient supply is what was killing thousands of Cingalese last week.

From Time Magazine Archive

On our way to the parsonage, we noticed that great respect was paid to the worthy Father, by such of the Cingalese as met us.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Karl Ritter von Scherzer

But, whatever the cause of the noise, or of the beliefs connected with the noise, may be, no one would explain them as the result of community of race between Cingalese and Aztecs.

From Custom and Myth New Edition by Andrew Lang

Our priestly host was greatly respected by the Cingalese, but he evidently was overjoyed at being able once more to express his thoughts and feelings in his native Italian.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Karl Ritter von Scherzer

Sinhalese, sin′ha-lēz, n. and adj. the same as Cingalese and Singhalese.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

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