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/dʒˌæpənˈiz/ Listen

adjective

Japanese adj. Of or pertaining to Japan, or its inhabitants.

noun

Japanese n.

A native or inhabitant of Japan; collectively, the people of Japan.

sing. The language of the people of Japan, called in the Japanese language nihongo.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Japanese" Quotes from Famous Books

... has shoes most neat To put on her tiny Japanese feet, But O! They are queer—such heels, such toes! You'd think she would fall on her little ...

— Boys and Girls Bookshelf; a Practical Plan of Character Building, Volume I (of 17) - Fun and Thought for Little Folk • Various

... flats,[31] one on each side, and the amount of trade done on these each voyage up and down, I am told, is considerable, and must annually give great profit to the countries whose goods we carry; two-thirds of these goods are Continental—German, Swiss, Austrian, Italian, and some are Japanese. The deduction to be drawn from this will be equally clear ...

— From Edinburgh to India & Burmah • William G. Burn Murdoch

... In English composition a fifth of his class excelled him. Edlin, the Russian Jew, out-debated him on the contention that property was robbery. Schultz and Debret left him with the class behind in higher mathematics; and Otsuki, the Japanese, was beyond all comparison with ...

— The Little Lady of the Big House • Jack London

... interesting account of the primitive methods of treating cotton by the Japanese.—Their methods of ginning, carding, etc., ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 613, October 1, 1887 • Various

... paint with thin oil colors. If the paint is not too thick the desired silvery sheen will show through. If the whole fish is dark no leaf is needed and in some cases the upper part of the body requires a gold ground with the nickel leaf on the silvery under parts. Japanese gold paint or something similar will ...

— Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit • Albert B. Farnham

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