Chineses
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Chineses
- (nonstandard or obsolete) plural of Chinese
- 1625, Samuel Purchas, Hakluytus posthumus:
- On the eighteenth of September, they encountred a great Juncke which they supposed to be Portugals, and after a hot fight forced her, found them Chineses, and were sorrie that they had ignorantly hurt their friends […]
- 1937, Avocations, volumes 1-2, page 54:
- He squinted at the idol. "Ain't it funny," he observed, "how them Chineses take God to be an old man with long whiskers! But if that suits 'em, why, I reckon it's all right."
- 1934, Robert E. Howard, General Ironfist:
- Them Chineses is always squabbling amongst theirselves.