Singhalese
Americanadjective
noun
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Even the Palestinian or Singhalese grandparents may be eased out of longtime prejudices.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Outside was the dark and curving Soho alley, with the foggy lights of a Singhalese restaurant, a French bookshop, a wig-maker's, an oyster bar.
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Scholarly Catholic missionaries are collaborating with Protestant ministers in translating the Bible into Singhalese, Indonesian, Swahili, Zulu and Japanese.
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The Singhalese language, which is soft and flowing, is founded on the Sanskrit, an evidence in itself of the antiquity of the people.
From The Pearl of India by Ballou, Maturin Murray
The Church Missionary Society have also a press amongst the Tamils; the Wesleyans established theirs in the Singhalese districts, and the Baptists have one at work in Kandy.
From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 by Various
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