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- noun Plural form of
rangatira .
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Between the chiefs and the common people, who, as we have already mentioned, are called "cookees," there seems to be also a pretty numerous class, distinguished by the name of rungateedas, or, as it has been more recently written, rangatiras, which appears to answer nearly to the English term gentry. [
John Rutherford, the White Chief George Lillie Craik 1832
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