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pareœan, a. and n. Anthrop.|pæreɪˈiːən|
[f. para-1 + Gr. ἐῷ-ος dawn, eastern + -an.]
adj. Designating a Southern Mongol people, esp. those found in and near China, perhaps to distinguish them from the older Chinese stock whose myths spoke of themselves as the people of the dawn. B. n. A member of this people.
1904T. W. Kingsmill in Jrnl. R. Asiatic Soc. (North China Branch) XXXV. 95 In the Mantses, and in a less degree in..the Lolos, the yellow pigment, characteristic of the Pareæan [sic] races, is either altogether absent or at most slightly developed. 1909A. C. Haddon Races of Man 18 (heading) Indo-Chinese, Pareœans or Southern Mongols. 1929L. H. D. Buxton China iii. 44 The Chinese belong to the southern or ‘Pareoean’ branch of that great group of humanity which is usually called ‘Yellow Man’ or ‘Mongolian’. Ibid. 45 Pareoean (παρηοῖος), ‘from beside the east’, is a term originally proposed by T. W. Kingsmill and now definitely adopted by Haddon for the group frequently known as ‘southern Mongols’. 1931C. G. Seligman in W. Rose Outl. Mod. Knowl. 443 The Southern Mongols, who in recent literature are tending more and more to be called Pareoean. 1957Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 866/2 In Korea there is a narrow belt which forms a connecting link between the northern and the Pareoean peoples. The latter differ most strikingly from their northern neighbours in having less prominent cheek-bones and a broadish nose. |