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- noun Plural form of
Mauritian .
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Examples
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STERLING: A dangerous money man with a collector's mania, Sterling is determined to own the famous "Mauritians".
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Mauritians may make more trash and pump out more C02 per capita than Indians, but there are only 1.2 million of them.
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“Well-behaved Mauritians” being a code for any light-skinned mixed-race person willing to pay the inflated rent and refrain from bringing bar girls into the room for a night of mattress-thumping.
Let The Dead Lie Malla Nunn 2010
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Mauritians, once automatically considered “Europeans,” had to be reclassified with the rest of the population and placed in a race group.
Let The Dead Lie Malla Nunn 2010
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“Well-behaved Mauritians” being a code for any light-skinned mixed-race person willing to pay the inflated rent and refrain from bringing bar girls into the room for a night of mattress-thumping.
Let The Dead Lie Malla Nunn 2010
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Mauritians, once automatically considered “Europeans,” had to be reclassified with the rest of the population and placed in a race group.
Let The Dead Lie Malla Nunn 2010
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"The Mauritians are sitting with their hands tied," said Downer.
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Berenger urged Mauritians not to interprate the elections as sectarian and told them to give the incoming government a chance.
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Jordanians, Algerians, Mauritians ... are some of the kindest, most generous, most hospitable people I have ever had the priveledge of knowing.
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The main cause of its decline was habitat loss, although other factors such as pesticide poisoning, egg predation by monkeys, and “varmint” shooting some Mauritians, suspecting the species of preying on chickens, called it damningly mangeur des poules were probably also involved.
The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004
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