Japanee

English

Etymology

Back-formation from Japanese.

Noun

Japanee (plural Japanees)

  1. (archaic) A person from Japan.
    • 1874, Ann Sophia Stephens, Phemie Frost's Experiences (page 173)
      Then there was more low bows, and we ladies swept back our trains, took steps and curtsied just as easy and graceful as they did, and Mrs. Grant talked a little with a Japanee.
    • 1879, James Hingston, The Australian Abroad (page 87)
      In dealing with a Japanee you are dealing with one of nature's gentlemen. For nature's gentlemen are the Japanese, made in the older fashion of the world before money-grubbing had soiled the souls of men, cankered their hearts, […]
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