sangley
English
Noun
sangley (plural sangleys or sangleyes)
- Alternative form of Sangley
- 1935, Percy A. Hill & Walter Johnson Robb, Romance and Adventure in Old Manila, page 49:
- The steersmen were killed on two of the bancas; the bancas, turning broadside to the current, were soon capsized, and the river became a mass of frenzied sangleys fighting for their lives in the treacherous waters.
- 2001, José Eugenio Borao Mateo, Spaniards in Taiwan: 1582-1641, page 185:
- Moreover, the sangleys are setting up a small parian in this area. This is bound to grow in time as more and more sangleys will go there to sow the fields and plant sugarcane.
- 2014, Caroline S. Hau, The Chinese Question: Ethnicity, Nation, and Region in and Beyond the Philippines, →ISBN:
- As discussed in the Introduction, the sangley was intimately associated with the economic activity of trade: even though there were sangleyes who worked as artisans (and in some cases farmers and fishermen), sangley involvement in the China-Manila-Mexico galleon trade was a key element of the early Spanish colonial economy. The sangley was also characterized by his high level of mobility, that is, his "frequent coming" from somewhere not here but near.
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Anagrams
- Ganleys