indigene

comparative more indigene · superlative most indigene

1. Indigenous.

plural indigenes

1. An indigenous person; a native.

   The price for all this chutzpah was that Malraux then had to take up the cause of the colonial indigenes as if it really mattered to him.

   2005 April 10, Christopher Hitchens, “André Malraux: One Man's Fate”, in New York Times Book Review

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   While Manuel sat skinning his birds of an afternoon, generally surrounded by a little crowd of Malays and Sassaks (as the indigenes of Lombock are termed), he often held forth to them with the air of a teacher, and was listened to with profound attention.

   1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 250