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Tahitian

adjective

Of or relating to or characteristic of the island of Tahiti or its residents or their language and culture.

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"Tahitian" Quotes from Famous Books

... quite at ease, chattering in a language no one understood except the words 'Missy Inglis,' as they pointed to a house. Presently another canoe arrived with a Samoan teacher with whom the Bishop could converse, and who said that Mr. Geddie was at Mare. They were soon followed by a whale boat with a Tahitian native teacher, a Futuma man, and ...

— Life of John Coleridge Patteson • Charlotte M. Yonge

... magnet scene, and he remembered how his quadrant was no more, and recalled his frantic oath about the level log and line. The ship was sailing plungingly; astern the billows rolled in riots. Forward, there! Heave the log! Two seamen came. The golden-hued Tahitian and the grizzly Manxman. Take the reel, one of ye, I'll heave. They went towards the extreme stern, on the ship's lee side, where the deck, with the oblique energy of the wind, was now almost dipping into the creamy, sidelong-rushing sea. The Manxman took the reel, and ...

— Moby-Dick • Melville

Words linked to "Tahitian" : oceanic, Tahiti, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Polynesian