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  • Without thinking, I picked it up and tested the action, as I'd done a score of times at Woolwich - and the Goanese store-wallah gaped.

    Fiancée 2010

  • His surname being Gomes (he gave me his Ritz card) I wondered whether he might be Goanese, but felt it would be impertinent to ask.

    Another Voice 2009

  • Trinity College, Oxford, and he joined the Indian army as a member of the Church of England; but when he was at Goa in 1847 he left off “sitting under” the garrison chaplain and betook himself to the Roman Catholic chapel, and availed himself of the ministrations of the Goanese priest.

    The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton 2006

  • Goanese people are kind-hearted and even if they commit adultery or are lecherous as shown in Luka's character, they never use Bombay Hindi for heaven's sake!

    Movies: Review of Musafir Chirayu 2004

  • Goanese people are kind-hearted and even if they commit adultery or are lecherous as shown in Luka's character, they never use Bombay Hindi for heaven's sake!

    Archive 2004-12-01 Chirayu 2004

  • Contrasting the Congoese with the Goanese, we obtain a measure of difference between the African and the Asiatic.

    Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

  • But Asia was not so inimical, mentally or bodily, to the European frame as Africa; the Goanese throve after a fashion, the mixed breed became the staple population, and thus it continues till this day.

    Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

  • Thus at Baroda, instead of attending the services of the garrison chaplain, he sat under the pleasant Goanese priest who preached to the camp servants; but he did not call himself a Catholic.

    The Life of Sir Richard Burton 2003

  • Goanese servants and made the voyage thither in a small vessel called a pattymar.

    The Life of Sir Richard Burton 2003

  • Includes persons who indicated their race as Asian Indian or who identified themselves as Bengalese, Bharat, Dravidian, East Indian, or Goanese.

    The Population of the United States Douglas L. Anderton 1997

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