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Moros   Listen
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Moros  n. pl.  (singular Moro) (Ethnol.) The Muslim tribes of the southern Philippine Islands, said to have formerly migrated from Borneo. Some of them are warlike and addicted to piracy.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Moros" Quotes from Famous Books



... has nothing to complain of," continued Helen. "But she has read somewhere that the slaughter of the poor negroes in the Congo and of the Chinese in Manchuria, and of the Zulus in Natal, and of the Moros in the Philippines, arises from the necessity under which the civilised nations labour to find foreign markets for their increasing output of cotton goods, brass jewelry, and coloured beads. Now the members of Mamie's union are engaged in producing precisely those commodities, and they have come ...
— The Patient Observer - And His Friends • Simeon Strunsky

... place," began Drina, "you are to lie down flat on the floor and creep about and show us how the Moros wriggle through the grass ...
— The Younger Set • Robert W. Chambers



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