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Melanesian   /mˌɛlənˈiʒən/   Listen
Melanesian

adjective
1.
Of or relating to Melanesia or its people or culture.





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"Melanesian" Quotes from Famous Books



... endeavored to show that if savages who live near the sea or river are clean, it is not owing to their love of cleanliness, but to an accident, bathing being resorted to by them as an antidote to heat, or as a sport. This applies particularly to the Melanesian and Polynesian inhabitants of the South Sea Islands, whose chief pastimes are swimming and surf riding. Thomas Williams, in his authoritative work on Fiji and the Fijians, makes some remarks which entirely ...
— Primitive Love and Love-Stories • Henry Theophilus Finck


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