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Paraguayan, a. and n.|pærəˈgweɪən, -ˈgwaɪən|
Also 7 Paragueyan, 9 Paraguarian.
[f. Paraguay + -an.]
A. adj. Of or belonging to Paraguay or its inhabitants; produced in or characteristic of Paraguay.
B. n. A native or inhabitant of Paraguay.
1693P. Gordon Geogr. Anatomized ii. iv. 192 The Paraguayans are reported to be a people of very tall and big bodies, yet extraordinarily nimble and much given to running. 1699Ibid. (ed. 2) ii. ii. 283 The opposite Place of the Globe to Japan, is that part of the Paragueyan Ocean, lying between 340 and 350 Degrees of Longitude, with 30 and 40 Degrees of Southern Latitude. 1832J. Bell Syst. Geogr. VI. i. 238 The Paraguarians collected an army of 6,000 men. 1856C. Kingsley Misc. (1859) II. 18 Very interesting also..are..scattered hints as to the qualities of the Paraguayans themselves. 1884R. G. Watson Spanish & Portuguese S. Amer. Colonial Period I. xvi. 273 Two Fathers, accompanied by thirty Paraguayan disciples, set out. 1901Chambers's Jrnl. Sept. 623/2 The Paraguayans are ominously polite. 1935P. de Ronde Paraguay iii. 43 From the unions between the Spanish and the natives there evolved in course of time the present Paraguayan race. 1956G. Durrell Drunken Forest iii. 62 Our housekeeper, a dark-skinned, dark-eyed Paraguayan woman. 1957P. Kemp Mine were of Trouble vi. 114 He had smuggled arms to one or other of the belligerents in the Gran Chaco war—I think to the Paraguayans. 1973G. Greene Honorary Consul v. ii. 264 He does not think in terms of Paraguayans, Peruvians, Bolivians, Argentinians. 1977Gramophone Dec. 1106/1 Agustin Barrios, the Paraguayan guitarist and composer. |