Japanee

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English

Etymology

Back-formation from Japanese.

Noun

Japanee (plural Japanees)

  1. (archaic) A person from Japan.
    • 1874, Ann Sophia Stephens, Phemie Frost's Experiences, page 173:
      Then there was more low bows, and we ladies swept back our trains, took steps and curtsied just as easy and graceful as they did, and Mrs. Grant talked a little with a Japanee.
    • 1879, James Hingston, The Australian Abroad, page 87:
      In dealing with a Japanee you are dealing with one of nature's gentlemen. For nature's gentlemen are the Japanese, made in the older fashion of the world before money-grubbing had soiled the souls of men, cankered their hearts, []