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Gentoo, n.1 and a. Obs. exc. Hist.|dʒɛnˈtuː|
Forms: 7 Gentou, -tu(e, Jentew, 8 Gentow, Jentoo, 7– Gentoo.
[Anglo-Indian ad. Pg. gentio gentile.]
A. n.
1. A non-Muslim inhabitant of Hindustan; a Hindu; in South India, one speaking Telugu.
1638Sir T. Herbert Trav. (ed. 2) 110 Three hundred slaves whom the Persians bought in India; Parsees, Jentews..and others. 1697W. Dampier Voy. I. 507 Moors..calling the Idolaters, Gentous. 1727A. Hamilton New Acc. E. Ind. I. xx. 239 The Inhabitants of the Island..were all Gentows, or Gentiles. 1776Trial of Nundocomar 47/1 Are not the customs of burying Mussulmen and Gentoos very different? 1834Lamb Lett. (1888) II. 300 What a supreme felicity to the author..to meet a smutty Gentoo ready to burst with laughing at the tale of Bo-Bo!
2. The language of the Gentoos.
1698Fryer Acc. E. Ind. & P. 33 Their Language they call generally Gentu. 1767J. Rennell MS. Let. (Y.), The original Language of this Countrey..is the Bengala or Gentoo.
B. attrib., passing into adj. Of or pertaining to the Gentoos.
1686Lond. Gaz. No. 2142/1 From thence we set forward with this numerous Company of People through the Gentue Town. 1763Scrafton Indostan (1770) 11 In justice to the Gentoo religion and customs, I must say [etc.]. 1779Forrest Voy. N. Guinea 282 The women tie their hair behind, and plait it like the Jentoo dancing girls at Madrass. 1807J. Hall Trav. Scotl. II. 591 The Gentoo physicians give a patient an emetic. 1841Emerson Ess. Ser. i. iv. 163 The poor mind does not seem to itself to be any thing, unless it have an outside badge,—some Gentoo diet, or Quaker coat..to testify that it is somewhat. |