Definitions
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- noun plural (Ethnol.) The race of men native in Polynesia.
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- noun Plural form of
Polynesian . - noun The
Polynesian people.
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Examples
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In the Louisiades he planted the first commercial rubber, and in Bora-Bora he ripped out the South Sea cotton and put the jolly islanders at the work of planting cacao. it was he who took the deserted island of Lallu-Ka, colonized it with Polynesians from the Ontong-Java Atoll, and planted four thousand acres to cocoanuts.
A SON OF THE SUN 2010
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In the Louisiades he planted the first commercial rubber, and in Bora-Bora he ripped out the South Sea cotton and put the jolly islanders at the work of planting cacao. it was he who took the deserted island of Lallu-Ka, colonized it with Polynesians from the Ontong-Java Atoll, and planted four thousand acres to cocoanuts.
A Son of the Sun 1912
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Coarsest of all the Polynesians were the Tahitians; yet even here efforts have been made [186] to convey the impression that they owed their licentious practices to the influence of white visitors.
Primitive Love and Love-Stories Henry Theophilus Finck 1890
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Polynesians, not one under six feet, ran down the palace walk and ranged behind their commander.
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American travel literature since its early days has revealed an anxiety about perceptions of the United States in the eyes of others—whether the Europeans in Mark Twain's "The Innocents Abroad" or the Polynesians in Herman Melville's "Typee."
Overseas and On Edge 2011
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That makes tattooing a rite of passage: and so it was among the Polynesians before Christian missionaries discouraged them from marking their flesh.
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Those first visitors—an expedition led by the Dutch lawyer Jakob Roggeveen—came upon an almost treeless expanse with perhaps 3,000 occupants, Polynesians who spoke their own distinct language.
Don't Blame the Natives Charles C. Mann 2011
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It was populated by five thousand Polynesians, all strapping men and women, many of them standing six feet in height and weighing
YAH! YAH! YAH! 2010
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And how far across their respective oceans did the Polynesians and Vikings really get?
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While she was out in the ocean surfing, he was paddling an outrigger canoe, a modern-day version of a small boat that Polynesians developed for sea travel thousands of years ago.
Party of Six: Team Paddling in the Pacific Jen Murphy 2011
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