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- adjective Of or pertaining to
Ceylon . - noun A
native of Ceylon.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Its people may be referred to as Ceylonese n. or adj. or Sri Lankans.
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Its people may be referred to as Ceylonese n. or adj. or Sri Lankans.
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Assuming a look of bland courtesy, Jane led the way toward a separate room at the far end of the cadjan dominated by a long table where several young Ceylonese women were busily working.
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“The funny mistress of five or six accents,” Jane regaled them all with the story of her dinner party, successively taking the part of a lecherous old Oxonian who was trying to pinch her bottom, a drunk Ceylonese official, and a dry old colonial widow with a lorgnette.
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“The funny mistress of five or six accents,” Jane regaled them all with the story of her dinner party, successively taking the part of a lecherous old Oxonian who was trying to pinch her bottom, a drunk Ceylonese official, and a dry old colonial widow with a lorgnette.
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They have long enjoyed the uses of political power and hark back to a past when they were the rousing nationalist force behind Ceylonese kings.
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Assuming a look of bland courtesy, Jane led the way toward a separate room at the far end of the cadjan dominated by a long table where several young Ceylonese women were busily working.
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She caught a ride with them in a jeep to their camp, which was located only six miles outside Kandy but ended up being a bumpy, half-hour trip on narrow, crowded roads full of Ceylonese drivers devoid of traffic sense.
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They have long enjoyed the uses of political power and hark back to a past when they were the rousing nationalist force behind Ceylonese kings.
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They have long enjoyed the uses of political power and hark back to a past when they were the rousing nationalist force behind Ceylonese kings.
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