Palaweño

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Etymology

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From Spanish palaweño, from Palawan +‎ -eño.

Noun

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Palaweño (plural Palaweños)

  1. An inhabitant of the Palawan island.
    • 1994, Robin Broad, John Cavanagh, Plundering Paradise: The Struggle for the Environment in the Philippines, Univ of California Press, →ISBN, page 43:
      The major fear of Palaweños such as our guides, as they watch their forests disappear, is not the loss of beauty.
    • 2016, Stephen L. Moore, As Good As Dead: The Daring Escape of American POWs From a Japanese Death Camp, Penguin, →ISBN:
      Many Palaweños, subjected to air raids and wide ranging abuses from the Japanese, fled into the hills to build primitive homes near the native Batak tribesmen.

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