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Nipponese|nɪpəˈniːz|
[f. Nippon + -ese.]
a. The Japanese people; an individual Japanese.
b. The Japanese language. Also attrib. or as adj.
1859K. Cornwallis Two Journeys to Japan I. 205 Beyond..was to be seen the houses of the town of Napa.. wherein were moored several large junks, native and Niponese. 1860R. H. Dana Jrnl. 24 Apr. (1968) III. 1027 This island, Yeso, is a conquest of the Japanese (Niponese). 1927E. Pound Let. 9 Nov. (1971) 214 At present it is the scattered fragments left by a dead man, edited by a man ignorant of Japanese. Naturally any sonvbitch who knows a little Nipponese can jump on it or say his flatfooted renderings are a safer guide to the style of that country. 1931Lit. Digest 16 May 45/1 Your Nipponese..looks as tho nothing short of an earthquake would startle him. 1935J. Joyce Let. c 18 Feb. (1966) III. 343 He wore a kimono and scarlet vest. I suppose the Nipponese evening dress. 1942[see crash-dive vb.]. 1944Sun (Baltimore) 25 Nov. 2/4 Nipponese planes were shot down. 1948A. Keith Three came Home i. 33 The war was coming to the East, and..the Nipponese were coming to Borneo. 1973‘S. Harvester’ Corner of Playground i. viii. 66 The apparent end of traditional Nipponese spiritual values under the steam-roller of post-war materialism. |