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Singhalese

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

adjective

  • Singhalese
    plural
  1. Sinhalese.


Singhalese British  
/ ˌsɪŋəˈliːz /

noun

  1. a variant spelling of Sinhalese

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Even the Palestinian or Singhalese grandparents may be eased out of longtime prejudices.

From Time Magazine Archive

Scholarly Catholic missionaries are collaborating with Protestant ministers in translating the Bible into Singhalese, Indonesian, Swahili, Zulu and Japanese.

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

The youthful Singhalese women, like those of Japan, take great pains in the arrangement of their ebon-black hair.

From The Pearl of India by Maturin Murray Ballou

The simplest police organization accomplishes this, though in former times, under insufferable tyranny of petty princes and foreign invaders, the Singhalese proved that they could fight for, and hold their own against considerable odds.

From The Pearl of India by Maturin Murray Ballou

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