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Angolan, n. and a.|æŋˈgəʊlən| [f. Angola (see below) + -an.] A. n. A native or inhabitant of Angola, a republic (formerly a Portuguese colony) in south-western Africa. B. adj. Of or pertaining to Angola or its inhabitants.
1600J. Pory tr. Leo Africanus, Geog. Hist. Afr. 413 For first in the yeere 1582, a fewe Portugals in an excursion that they made, put to flight an innumerable companie of the Angolans. 1875J. J. Monteiro Angola I. ii. 24 The character of the Angolan landscape is entirely different from that of the West Coast proper. 1922J. C. B. Statham Through Angola p. v, It was at an Angolan port that Livingstone..ended his first great African journey in 1853. 1933J. T. Tucker Angola i. 11 His cunning artistry became proverbial among Angolan tribes. 1960Times 30 May 9/6 Sitting at a pavement café..in the little Angolan fishing port of Mocamedes. 1976Daily Times (Lagos) 12 July 9/4 President Neto, in refusing to commute the death sentences explained: ‘Every Angolan remembers the vile and cruel behaviours of the mercenaries who have sown death and despair in African countries in return for pay.’ 1980Amer. Speech LV. 27 The Angolan slaves taken into Surinam by the Dutch seem to have carried the essentials of a Portuguese pidgin with them. |