Ceramese

Ceramese

English

Etymology

From Ceram +‎ -ese.

Noun

Ceramese (uncountable)

  1. Obsolete spelling of Seramese
    • 1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 471:
      The native Amboynese who reside in the city are a strange half-civilized, half-savage lazy people, who seem to be a mixture of at least three races - Portuguese, Malay, and Papuan or Ceramese, with an occasional cross of Chinese or Dutch.

Adjective

Ceramese (not comparable)

  1. Obsolete spelling of Seramese
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