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Definition of Mauritian

1. Adjective. Of or related to the island or country of Mauritius or its inhabitants. "Mauritanian tropical fish"

Definition of Mauritian

1. Adjective. Of, from, or pertaining to Mauritius, its people, or their language or culture. ¹

2. Noun. A person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent. ¹

3. Proper noun. Mauritian Creole. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mauritian

Literary usage of Mauritian

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Politics of Trade and Industrial Policy in Africa: Forced Consensus? by Charles Chukwuma Soludo, Michael Osita Ogbu, Ha-Joon Chang (2004)
"The majority of Mauritian sugar is exported to the EU at guaranteed prices. ... In the light of this, it is clear that the Mauritian industrial sector is ..."

2. A Narrative of a Visit to the Mauritius and South Africa by James Backhouse (1844)
"A. ISLANDS belonging to the Mauritian GOVERNMENT, with their GEOGRAPHICAL POSITIONS, SIZE and POPULATION, taken chiefly from the "Almanach de 1' Maurice," ..."

3. The Mauritius Register: Historical, Official & Commercial, Corrected to the by T. E. Palmer, G. T. Bradshaw, G. Clark (1859)
"The greatest, if not the only deficiency in the charm of a Mauritian landscape, is the absence of that melody with which the feathered choristers of Europe ..."

4. The Cidaridae by Hubert Lyman Clark (1907)
"The only difference that can be detected between Mauritian and Hawaiian specimens is that, in the latter, ..."

5. The Bedoons of Kuwait: "citizens Without Citizenship" by Human Rights Watch/Middle East, Aziz Abu-Habad (1995)
"When twenty Mauritian women challenged their country's immigration and deportation ... Under the Mauritian laws being challenged, an alien husband of a ..."

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