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Sangley en · NOUN

Etymology

From Philippine Spanish Sangley, ultimately from Hokkien.

Meanings

1. (Philippines, historical) A person of pure ethnic Chinese ancestry (especially during the Spanish colonial period in the Philippines)
   • They retired to the river of Tan-Chuy, with a prize which they made there, a small champan from China, which came from that kingdom to Hermosa Island to carry supplies and merchandise; in it was traveling a religious of St. Dominic, in the garb of a Sangley. 1907, Emma Helen Blair, The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, →ISBN, page 136:
   • There were also in this city certain Sangleyes who had settled down there to sell their merchandise, so that they remained there from one year to another. 1905, United States Bureau of the Census, Census of the Philippine Islands, 1903, page 483:
   • What arouses my wonder most is, that when I arrived no Sangley knew how to paint anything; but now they have so perfected themselves in this art that they have produced marvelous works with both the brush and the chisel.... 1947, Edwin Wolf, Doctrina Christiana: the First Book Printed in the Philippines, Manila, 1593, →ISBN:

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Relateds

Mestizo de Sangley