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Tasaday

American  
[tah-suh-dahy] / ˈtɑ səˌdaɪ /

noun

  • Tasadays,
    plural
  • Tasaday
    plural
  1. a member of a very small group of forest-dwelling people of southern Mindanao.


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Tasaday, the 9-10 jolly in the fillies' race, managed to get beaten after being allowed a soft lead.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 15, 2013

The Tasaday are unfamiliar with rice, taro, salt and sugar, have never eaten corn and, according to authorities, may be "the only people in the world today who do not know or use tobacco."

From Time Magazine Archive

He wanted not so much his old exhilarations of flight as peace for the blue whales and the primitive Tasaday of the Philippines.

From Time Magazine Archive

Making contact with the Tasaday, the government agents soon determined that the tribe had been isolated for at least 700 years and perhaps for 2,000, and had no knowledge of agriculture.

From Time Magazine Archive

With all its problems, progress seemed to please the Tasaday.

From Time Magazine Archive

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