sulu

plural sulus

1. An all-purpose skirt-like garment worn by men and women in Fiji.

1. A province of Mindanao, Philippines. Capital: Jolo & Patikul.
2. Sulu Archipelago (an archipelago of Mindanao, Philippines)
3. historicalthe Sultanate of Sulu
4. datedTausug language

plural Sulus

1. A member of a prominent Moro tribe, occupying the Sulu Archipelago.

   At the present time there are but few remains on the Island of Jolo of the past glory and civilization of the Sulu people.

   1921, Ignacio Villamor, Felipe Buencamino, Census of the Philippine Islands - Volume II, page 950

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   That is the reason why the Sulu people have the right, and that they came to make the dredge (badja) to get the mother-of-pearl shell from the deep, because they can not see them.

   1908, George Frederick Kunz, Charles Hugh Stevenson, The Book of the Pearl, →ISBN, page 216

   If the Spaniards merely meant to subjugate the Sulu, suppressing piracy and lawlessness on the way and no more, they would have been applauded in many quarters.

   1970, Leigh R. Wright, The Origins of British Borneo, page 34