Definitions
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- noun Plural form of
Dayak .
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Examples
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Though the so-called Dayaks have many traits in common, of them all the Kenyahs are the most attractive.
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When I had opportunity I ate the rice of the Dayaks, which is not so well sifted of its husks, and is by far more palatable than the ordinary polished rice.
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Layan is a member of an indigenous ethnic group called the Dayaks, who once had a reputation as fierce headhunters.
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They received help and shelter from a local tribe, the Dayaks, who still hunted with blowpipes.
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The Zoo Quest team are hoping to find an orangutan and, with guidance from the Dayaks, they discover and film one in the wild.
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The Zoo Quest team are hoping to find an orangutan and, with guidance from the Dayaks, they discover and film one in the wild.
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"That would be the signal for Dayaks from all over Borneo to join the slaughter."
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Madurese are now 10 percent of the Sambas population and tend to disparage Dayaks for Christian and animist ways that Islam considers unclean, like keeping dogs and eating pork.
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A Western diplomat in Jakarta worries that the Dayaks may yet "pass the red bowl," a conconction of human blood and chicken feathers that commits all who drink it to go to war.
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The Dayaks first declared war in 1996, slaughtering 1,000 Madurese.
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