Nipponese

American  

[nip-uh-neez, -nees] / ˌnɪp əˈniz, -ˈnis /

noun

plural

Nipponese

1. Japanese.

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Nipponese British  

/ ˌnɪpəˈniːz /

adjective

1. another word for Japanese

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Other Word Forms

• Nipponism noun

Etymology

Origin of Nipponese

First recorded in 1855–60; Nippon + -ese

Example Sentences

An old Nipponese castle around a small lake, the pavilion demonstrates the manufacture of silk, parasols, dolls; offers a culinary oddity, tea ice-cream, nauseous grey-green in color, but pleasantly piquant in taste.

From Time Magazine Archive

It involves a weekend at Lake Biwa, a sort of Nipponese Grossinger's, where she has arranged for Harvey to shoot some pictures.

From Time Magazine Archive

Yet the one now playing, in which Tora-San plays a Nipponese Cyrano de Bergerac, is almost certain to gross $8 million.

From Time Magazine Archive

One minor craze in the current Nipponese nuptial season is the extravagant "performance" wedding.

From Time Magazine Archive

The sanctity of learning, the inheritance in these bishops and priors of the merits of those who went before, has kept and keeps the appellation in the minds of the generations of the Nipponese.

From Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2 by De Benneville, James S. (James Seguin)