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Makassarese

American  
[muh-kas-uh-reez, -rees] / məˌkæs əˈriz, -ˈris /
Also Macassarese,

noun

PLURAL

Makassarese

  1. a member of a Muslim people of southwestern Sulawesi, near Ujung Pandang, closely related to the Buginese.

  2. the Austronesian language of the Makassarese.

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High turbans of white or red cambric, elaborately twisted, add dignity to the stately figures, deeply-cut features and hawk noses denoting Arab origin, for the Makassarese is a lineal descendant of the Moslem pirates, once the terror of these island-studded seas.

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