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canarese

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Ca⋅na⋅rese

  [kah-nuh-reez, -rees, kan-uh-]
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–adjective, noun, plural -rese.
Kanarese.

Ka⋅na⋅rese

  [kah-nuh-reez, -rees, kan-uh-] adjective, noun, plural -rese.
–adjective
1. of or pertaining to Kanara, a part of the Maharashtra province in W India.
–noun
2. one of a Dravidian people living mainly in the state of Karnataka, in southwest India.
3. Kannada.
Also, Canarese.

Origin:
1830–40; Kanar(a) + -ese
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canarese

noun
a member of a Kannada-speaking group of people living chiefly in Kanara in southern India [syn: Kanarese] 
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