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Japanee
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English
Etymology
Back-formation from en Japanese.
Noun
en archaic A person from Japan.
en 1874 Ann Sophia Stephens Phemie Frost's Experiences 173 Then there was more low bows, and we ladies swept back our trains, took steps and curtsied just as easy and graceful as they did, and Mrs. Grant talked a little with a Japanee.
en 1879 James Hingston The Australian Abroad 87 In dealing with a Japanee you are dealing with one of nature's gentlemen. For nature's gentlemen are the Japanese, made in the older fashion of the world before money-grubbing had soiled the souls of men, cankered their hearts,
Related terms
en Chinee
en Portugee
en Demonyms