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Maltese

[ mawl-teez, -tees ]

adjective

  1. of or relating to Malta, its people, or their language.


noun

, plural Mal·tese.
  1. a native or inhabitant of Malta.
  2. the Arabic dialect spoken in Malta, using many Italian words.

Maltese

/ mɔːlˈtiːz /

adjective

  1. of or relating to Malta, its inhabitants, or their language


noun

  1. -tese a native or inhabitant of Malta
  2. the official language of Malta, a form of Arabic with borrowings from Italian, etc
  3. a breed of toy dog having a very long straight silky white coat
  4. a domestic fancy pigeon having long legs and a long neck

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Word History and Origins

Origin of Maltese1

First recorded in 1605–15; Malt(a) + -ese

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Example Sentences

These tigers were described as “marvelously beautiful” with bodies “a deep shade of Maltese, changing into almost deep blue on the under parts.”

Robert Graves thought Hammett was better than either Chandler or Asbury and called The Maltese Falcon, “a literary landmark.”

“So I called out of the clear blue sky with no agenda,” she remembers, as she holds up her Maltese, Max, for smooches.

Not at all, as it turns out: He is worried about his little Maltese, which has a persistent liver infection.

Bonaparte attacked Valetta, in Malta, and in a sortie the Maltese lost the standard of their order.

The flag of the club is the blue ensign of Her Majesty's fleet, with a gold crown and Maltese cross.

The second is cloathed with hair, and in size resembles our little Maltese dogs.

Our next recruit was a little Maltese terrier, named Lisette, which raised the number to fourteen.

Fig. 190 shows an Etruscan bronze fibula with two Swastikas and two Maltese crosses in the pin shield.

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