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- adjective Of or pertaining to the people, products, or culture of
Southeast Asia , particularly the Malay Archipelago,Sri Lanka , orIndia . - proper noun A
native orinhabitant of the Malay Archipelago, Sri Lanka, or India.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Melde is described as East Indian with a medium complexion, 5-foot-7, 218 lbs., with medium length black hair and a chubby face.
Toronto Sun 2009
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Melde is described as East Indian with a medium complexion, 5-foot-7, 218 lbs., with medium length black hair and a chubby face.
Toronto Sun 2009
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Some cooks personalize their dish with unusual items such as bitter melon or young jackfruit, a kind of East Indian breadfruit.
The Dish: Gado-Gado 2008
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Close to Philadelphia and to Trenton, N.J. and on a rail line, the homes are starting to draw Hispanic, Eastern European, Turkish, Liberian and East Indian immigrants.
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Close to Philadelphia and to Trenton, N.J. and on a rail line, the homes are starting to draw Hispanic, Eastern European, Turkish, Liberian and East Indian immigrants.
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Maria Beaumont clove through the crowd, arms outstretched, eyes outstretched, naked bosom outstretched ... her body transformed by pneumatic surgery into an exagerated East Indian figure with puffed hips, puffed calves and puffed gilt breasts.
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Each had a unique flavor or color-scheme; one was Chinese and a pale celadon in color, one East Indian and done up in gold and brown, one appeared to have a Russian theme, complete with icons and massive samovar and the scheme there was red and black.
red dust Ryn Cricket 2010
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One of Cannon's interviewees, a Guyanese woman of mixed African and East Indian descent, says she can call a White woman "girl" but coming from the other end it would be racist because "it makes me the maid."
Ontario Blogs Feed 2009
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But in relative terms the Jews and Italians and most of the cultures on the globe, for that matter, are small in population compared to the East Indian and Chinese one.
Is It Offensive To Demand That Multiculturalism Mean Diversity? « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2009
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Most of the East Indian women wear typical Maharashtrian saree and Koli dresses.
Archive 2009-08-01 photographerno1 2009
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