单词 | tamil tiger |
释义 | > as lemmasTamil Tiger Tamil Tiger n. [ < Tamil n. and adj. + tiger n. (not directly after any Tamil term, but compare the organization's emblem of a tiger, attributed originally to the Cholas, a Dravidian people of southern India who occupied and ruled parts of Sri Lanka c993–1070)] a member of the paramilitary Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam; (in plural) this organization; cf. Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam n. at liberation n. Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1978 Times 20 May 5/7 The National State Assembly of Sri Lanca [sic] today passed..a Bill proscribing the Tamil Tiger Liberation Movement and similar organizations. 1983 Ann. Reg. 1982 277 As well as clashes with the police, there was violence between two groups of ‘Tamil Tigers’ and the house of a Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF) politician was burned down in April. 1995 H. Wriggins in I. W. Zartmann Elusive Peace ii. 54 Sporadic efforts by the Tamil Tigers to disrupt continued. 2002 Toronto Sun (Nexis) 11 Mar. 15 There was a Tamil on the panel who talked about the difficulty his parents had trying to find a school for him to attend because people thought he was a Tamil Tiger. < as lemmas |
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