Goanese

comparative more Goanese · superlative most Goanese

1. Of or relating to Goa

   Synonyms: Goan

1. pluralplural onlyThe people of Goa.

   I discharged him, and through Berkeley's help I succeeded in securing a Goanese — a native of Goa which is a Portuguese settlement in India.

   c. 1900, John Brunton, John Brunton's Book: Being the Memories of John Brunton, Engineer, 1812-1899, published 1939, page 88

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   In the first years of his rule he had attempted to bring the meek Goanese to some knowledge of cultivation as the West understood it, but though they might be biddable, the soil and the sun were not.

   1933, Helen Simpson, chapter 5, in The Woman on the Beast