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Nepalese

Nepalese \Nep`a*lese"\ (? or ?), prop. a. Of or pertaining to Nepal, a kingdom North of India; as, Nepalese troops massed at the border. [Formerly written Nepaulese.]

Syn: Nepali.

Nepalese

Nepalese \Nep`a*lese"\ (? or ?), prop. n. sing. & pl. A native or natives of Nepal, or an inhabitant of Nepal.

Nepalese

Nepaulese \Nep`au*lese"\ (? or ?), prop. a. Of or pertaining to Nepal (formerly written Nepaul), a kingdom North of India; same as Nepalese. -- n. sing. & pl. A native or natives of Nepal.

Usage examples of "nepalese".

Opposite them was the place for the representativesBritish, Bhutanese, Nepalese and Chinese.

The Indian style would no doubt have been from Bihar and Bengal and closely related to the Nepalese which, though already present earlier, would increasingly have replaced the eastern Indian source after 1200.

Thus I saw what I took to be Nepalese boys in the garb of urban American blacks talking to each other in Spanish, four Japanese girls wearing Andean headgear yabbering to each other in Magreb Arabic, Saree-covered Tolchucks conversing in Cantonese, Malay-speaking Rastafarians, Portuguese-giggling Sikhs, English-speaking Hindu Swedes, Urdu-chattering Nigerian Orthodox Rabbis.

There were Indians, Sikkimese, Nepalese, and of course numbers of the young gentlemen of Lhasa.

Was he Melanesian, Polynesian, Indonesian, Nepalese, Surinamese, Dutch-Chinese?

The Anapurna was the Nepalese equivalent of a Hilton, its bar equipped in vinyl and plastic, with a choirlike arrangement of bottles fronting the mirror.

The order was to himself, but it was given as a deafening telepathic scream, and elsewhere in the hospital other telepathists, including the Nepalese girl, reacted with sleepy surprise.

In hiking boots and parka from minutes before, when I squatted unthinking inside a snow-entrenched Nepalese outhouse, I walk cautiously across a ridge of little asteroid-like morsels of stone venting puffs of steam, and I gather myriad lichens.

The beauty of the Nepalese made their painful squalor all the more disturbing to me.

Wangdu had been spotted by helicopter as he and his men rode furiously on horseback toward the Nepalese border through inaccessible canyons.

Elsewhere in the monastery, the Lama listens intently to a soccer game being waged in Kathmandu between Gurkhas and a team of Soviets visiting the Nepalese capital.

And the average Nepalese income every year is less than sixty dollars.

Kaldup's own work in the forestry division of the Nepalese government is of great interest to me, particularly in view of the crisis he has -to cope with.

Most experts agree that it is actually the stretched skull of a Nepalese red fox and I believe that the Lama himself would concur, if it weren't so profitable to perpetuate the myth.

Among foreign traders the Nepalese enjoyed a favoured status and they also supplied the country with craftsmen and artisans.