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Japanese race: Var
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aino
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Aino is a figure in the Finnish national epic Kalevala . It relates that she was the beautiful sister of Joukahainen . Her brother, having lost a singing contest to the storied Väinämöinen , promised Aino's "hands and feet" in marriage if Väinämöinen would ...
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ainu \Ai"nu\, n. [Said to be the native name for man.] One of a peculiar race found primarily in Hokkaido, in the northern part of the empire of Japan, the Kurile Islands, and nearby. They are believed to be the native inhabitants of the Japanese islands. ...
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (alternative form of Ainu English) (ethnic group of Japan)
Usage examples of aino.
For some distance, however, it runs placidly along by the sea-shore, on which big, blue, foam-crested rollers were disporting themselves noisily, and passes through several Aino hamlets, and the Aino village of Abuta, with sixty houses, rather a prosperous-looking place, where the cultivation was considerably more careful, and the people possessed a number of horses.
The slopes of this hill are covered with the Aconitum Japonicum, of which the Ainos make their arrow poison.