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Javanese   /dʒˌɑvənˈiz/   Listen
Javanese

adjective
1.
Of or relating to or characteristic of Java or its inhabitants or its language.  Synonym: Javan.  "Javanese dialects"






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"Javanese" Quotes from Famous Books



... compelled to buy twenty-four inferior big guns from Krupp, without contract or competition, for the defence of her Javanese possessions, which no one thinks of attacking. Do you suppose that Krupp's Company regards war as disadvantageous, or circulates Norman Angell's book for a new gospel? "What plunder!" cried Bluecher, looking over London ...
— Essays in Rebellion • Henry W. Nevinson

... is to see here!" remarked Dr. Conly—"men, women, and children from all parts of the world, clad in their own odd, native attire; Chinese, Japanese, Dahomeyans, Nubians, wild Arabs, Persians, Soudanese, Algerians, Javanese, and Cingalese." ...
— Elsie at the World's Fair • Martha Finley

... idea, which frequently appears in Tinguian tales, is also found in Javanese literature. See Bezemer, Volksdichtung aus Indonesien, ...
— Philippine Folk Tales • Mabel Cook Cole



Words linked to "Javanese" :   java, Indonesian, Bahasa, Bahasa Indonesia



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