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Mendesian en · ADJ
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(not-comparable) Of or relating to a certain one of the seven ancient distributaries of the river Nile.
"His father was one of the Greek mercenaries raised by Hak-Hor, a Mendesian Pharaoh of the twenty-ninth dynasty, and his grandfather or great-grandfather, I believe, was that very Kallikrates mentioned by Herodotus."
1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
Mendesian en · NOUN
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(historical) A native or inhabitant of the Mendes region of Egypt.
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