Gabonesen.adj.

1866 Illustr. Times 24 Feb. 115/3 Among the Gabonese these buildings are simple huts.

1962 Technol. Rev. (Mass. Inst. Technol.) Feb. 24/3 Today from time to time one finds a Gabonese who was trained by the missionaries and who can speak English.

1994 CIO 15 Apr. 38/1 Many Gabonese have begun to question the political and commercial influence France exerts over their nation.

2016 South Wales Echo (Nexis) 12 Oct. 46 The Cardiff City faithful voted in favour of the Gabonese when it came to selecting a partner for new recruit Bamba.

1885 H. M. Stanley Congo I. xii. 232 An hour later the French gentleman appears.., and a following of fifteen men, principally Gabonese sailors.

1928 Studies: Irish Q. Rev. 17 125 Leaving a Senegalese sergeant, the celebrated Lalamine, and two Gabonese sailors to guard the French flag he had planted in these newly acquired French territories, Brazza returned to the coast.

1965 Amer. Anthropologist 67 902 In the eyes of Fang reformatists the cult life of the southern Gabonese peoples, most notably the Metsogo and the Baloumbo, was more elaborate and more dramatic.

1999 S. Broughton et al. World Music: Rough Guide I. iii. 434/2 Unlike most Benin or Togo musicians based in Paris, who tend to produce discs of largely roots appeal with Ivoirian and Gabonese artists, Angelique went for a crossover music from the outset.

2012 D. Quammen Spillover viii. 55 He had crossed the Republic of the Congo with a field crew of forest-tough Congo men..but those fellows had been disallowed entry at the Gabonese border.