wayangn.

1671 J. Ogilby tr. O. Dapper et al. Atlas Chinensis 257 Van Hoorn..return'd, being on his Way going to Singlamong's prime Factor, who had invited him to a Feast and Wayang, or Play [Du. Wayang, of spel], in Person to send away the Vlaerdings Boat.

1808 Asiatick Researches 10 iii. 181 Scenic exhibitions termed ‘Wayang-wayang’, were till lately, very common in the peninsula of Malayu.

1853 Jrnl. Indian Archipel. & Eastern Asia 7 271 A very large collection of Wayang figures, cut out of hide.

1881 Encycl. Brit. XIII. 604/2 The wayangs or puppet plays, in which grotesque figures of gilded leather are moved by the performer, who recites the appropriate speeches, and as occasion demands plays the part of chorus.

1910 Handbk. Ethnogr. Coll. Brit. Mus. 102 The first two forms of Wayang are shadow-plays, the puppets being cut from leather.

1934 H. W. Ponder Java Pageant iv. 49 The stories have been immortalized..by the ‘Wayang’, or native theatre, which for countless generations has been so much a part of Javanese life.

1973 D. May Laughter in Djakarta iv. 71 Tonight he was going..to see a wayang, an old Hindu-Javanese story acted and danced by a famous company from central Java.

2009 Independent 28 Sept. 25/4 A few years ago, it [sc. Indonesia] persuaded Unesco to acknowledge wayang..as distinctly Indonesian.