Makasaresen.adj.

1820 Notes on Bali 15 in Malayan Misc. 1 No. 11 The Mahomedans..consist of Macassarese, Bugis, and a few converted natives.

1837 Mr. Dalton's Papers Borneo in J. H. Moor Notices Indian Archipel. i. 25 The English..had..many opportunities of marking the difference of fighting with the Javanese, Macassarese, Bugis, Amboynese, [etc.].

1870 Anthropol. Rev. 8 180 Mixed descendants of Europeans, Chinese, Africans, Arabs, Macassarese, Buginese, Balinese, Dayaks, etc.,..at a riper period of life come to be regarded as Malays.

1914 Mid-Pacific Mag. June 560/1 The physiognomy of these people also differs strongly from that of the Javanese, Madoerese, Macassarese and Boeginese we have hitherto seen.

1922 G. Z. Stone Lett. to Djinn 82 The Macassarese is a poor tiller of the soil and a poor servant to alien peoples, but he is a great trader.

1948 D. Diringer Alphabet vii. 430 The Macassarese and the Buginese..are the most important and the most advanced peoples of the island [sc. Celebes].

1959 Chambers's Encycl. III. 211/1 The peoples of the south (Buginese and Macassarese) are Moslems.

2013 R. Bahari & H. Aveling tr. L. Y. Fang Hist. Classical Malay Lit. x. 470 Many Makasarese died but the Company was not successful in its attack.

1880 Encycl. Brit. V. 818/1 Among the other languages which have been reduced to writing and grammatically analysed are the Balinese..the Dayak, and the Macassarese.

1948 D. Diringer Alphabet vii. 430 Macassarese is spoken nowadays in all the districts from Balu Kumba to Segere.

1983 E. M. Beekman Two Tales East Indies 196 (notes) Anakaraeng means royal child in Macassarese, the child (anak) of a karaëng.

2013 R. Bahari & H. Aveling tr. L. Y. Fang Hist. Classical Malay Lit. x. 470 This knowledge may have helped him write in a pure Malay, without any use of Makasarese.

1841 Athenæum 20 Nov. 897/1 The Macassars, although nearly all the natives on the coast speak their language, know even less about the natives than we do; nearly all the words made use of by the natives in speaking with us are Macassarese.

1904 E. Tregear in Rep. 10th Meeting Australasian Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 424 It is these two dialects only—viz., the Bughese and Makassarese (properly Mangkasara)—which will be touched upon in this paper.

1908 Man 8 124 In the southern peninsula are the Bugi (Towugi) and Makassarese states, with a monarchical-feudal system.

1968 Encycl. Brit. V. 132/2 They [sc. the Toradja tribe] came under a Bugis and Makasarese civilizing influence.

1968 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 654/1 Gaily coloured, plaited basketing is an outstanding feature of Makasarese markets.

1983 E. M. Beekman Two Tales East Indies 196 (notes) Karaëng was originally the Macassarese title of the king of Gowa.

2013 R. Bahari & H. Aveling tr. L. Y. Fang Hist. Classical Malay Lit. x. 470 Skinner describes him as a mixed blood Makasarese Malay.