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Tahitian

adjective

Of or relating to or characteristic of the island of Tahiti or its residents or their language and culture.

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"Tahitian" Quotes from Famous Books

... Amazons, some of whom have a scroll-like mark on each cheek, proceeding from the corner of the mouth. The taste, as far as form is concerned, of the American Indian, would seem to be far less refined than that of the Tahitian ...

— The Naturalist on the River Amazons • Henry Walter Bates

... clear of all such influences—the only instance in which two distinct stocks of mankind were crossed, and their progeny intermarried without any admixture from without—is the famous case of the Pitcairn Islanders, who were the progeny of Bligh's English sailors by Tahitian women. The results of this experiment, as everybody knows, are dead against those who maintain the doctrine of human hybridity, seeing that the Pitcairn Islanders, even though they necessarily contracted consanguineous marriages, ...

— Critiques and Addresses • Thomas Henry Huxley

... the reader may be tempted to stumble over some foreign words. I have put them in only when necessary, to give the color and rhythm of Tahiti. The Tahitian words are very easily pronounced and they are music in the mouth of any one who sounds them properly. Every letter and syllable is pronounced plainly. The letters have the Latin value and if one will remember this in reading, ...

— Mystic Isles of the South Seas. • Frederick O'Brien

Words linked to "Tahitian" : Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Polynesian, Tahiti, oceanic