Samsui women

A form of Samsui woman — A Chinese female immigrant who came to Malaya or Singapore between the 1920s and 1940s in search of construction or industrial work, mostly from the Sanshui district of modern-day Guangdong in China.

Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of Samsui woman
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