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- noun Plural form of
Negrito .
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Examples
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On New Year's Day and on Day of the Kings, the dance of "Los Negritos" is most impressive.
The Meseta Purepecha 2008
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On New Year's Day and on Day of the Kings, the dance of "Los Negritos" is most impressive.
The Meseta Purepecha 2008
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The second theory is that the peopling of the several archipelagoes by the Negritos has been a gradual spread from island to island.
Negritos of Zambales William Allan Reed
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In New Guinea and the adjacent islands is found a race of black peoples usually called Negritos, or Negroids.
Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania Jewett Castello Gilson
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The husbandry of the Negritos is the most primitive imaginable.
The Philippine Islands John Foreman
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Those of the Philippines, known as Negritos or Aetas, have been somewhat closely observed and may be briefly described.
Man And His Ancestor A Study In Evolution Charles Morris 1877
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Anthropologist Roberta G. de Souza reported in her 2006 article in the * Annals of Human Biology* that Agta hunter-gatherer men in the Philippines (commonly referred to as Negritos) have a mean height of 153 cm, also two centimeters shorter than the Pygmies in the study.
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Indeed, I fairly chuckled to myself when I thought what amusing rhymes could be made with "Negritos," "modus operandi" and "Dog Men of Darfur."
My Discovery of England Stephen Leacock 1906
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Philippines and the Malay peninsula, the former called "Negritos," and the latter "Semangs."
The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 2 Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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These members of the 'Los Negritos' brotherhood in Seville adjusted their masks after the group's leaders decided they couldn't perform their annual penance march in the streets because of bad weather.
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