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Cingalese  n.  The language of the Cingalese.





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"Cingalese" Quotes from Famous Books



... his native Colombo with a liberal education, to find that the life and thought of the strange Indo-European bourgeoisie to which he belongs by birth present no alluring features. In point of fact the ambitions and hypocrisies, pretences and prejudices of the Cingalese "burgher" with the tell-tale finger-nails are merely those of Bristol or Amsterdam evolved under Colonial conditions. Jack van der Beck, for example, the pompous medical ass with a flourishing practice among the local nabobs, can be found in every provincial town in Europe. The ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 152, June 27, 1917 • Various
 
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