sanglay

plural sanglays · plural sanglayes

1. alternativeAlternative form of Sangley.

   'Kitchen Spanish' as spoken by Chinese sanglays as they were known in the Philippines is typified by the following example ..."

   2001, Mauro Fernández, Shedding Light on the Chabacano Language, page 132

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   Scions of old chanters like National Living Treasure for Epic Literature, Federico “Tuohan” Caballero, mentions a sanglay as gong bearer. As such, a gong must have gotten to the interior through trade or leisure sea travel.

   2013, Alice P. Magos, “Chants, Gongs and Ancestral Memories of the Panay Bukidnon, Philippine Islands”, in Musika Jornal, volume 9

   Different spaces and times crossed and confronted each other. In Manila, for instance, the district of the Chinese merchants, or sanglays, was organised according to the Chinese calendar.

   2014, José Antonio Martínez Torres, “'There is but one world': Globalisation and connections in the overseas territories of the Spanish Habsburgs (1581-1640)”, in Culture & History Digital Journal, volume 3, number 1

plural Sanglays · plural Sanglayes

1. alternativeAlternative form of Sangley.

   In 1639, on pretence of a concerted insurrection, twenty-three thousand Sanglayes (descendants of Chinese and natives) were put to the sword.

   1833, Alick Osborne, Notes on the Present State and Prospects of Society in New South Wales

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   All these constituents - Christians or pagans, Tagals, Vicols, Chinese and Sanglays, Whites and Creoles, the subjugated and the untamed -- form a nation of 3 1/2 million men, including the neighboring islands.

   1892, Onésime Reclus, A Bird's-eye View of the World, page 869

   Take it to Sugbu, barter for it with the Sanglay, the Chinese. For metal implements. Knives, needles. Porcelain and celadon ware. The Sanglay come in their batwinged junks with the onset of the northeast monsoon, the amihan.

   1998, Carlos Cortés, Lassitude and other stories, →ISBN, page 62

   Lim Pay went to the Parian — the pueblo of the Sanglays, where Father, Mother, and I often go after Sunday Mass to eat at the panciteria — to tell his friends that the gobernador was sending soldiers to take away their goods and close down their stores. Ah Beng said the Sanglays were very scared and some became angry.

   2007, Gémino H. Abad, The Children's Hour: Stories on Childhood - Volume 1, →ISBN, page 122