Senegalese
nounEtymology From Senegal + -ese.
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In plural A person from Senegal or of Senegalese descent.
- Foreigner who marries a Senegalese is granted permanent residency and can apply for citizenship by naturalization.2001, Citizenship Laws of the World, Amer Immigration Lawyers Assn, page 173:
- In times of need, it is the mother's brother whom a Senegalese is most likely to approach for aid. The matrilineage is dominated by the tokor ("tuh-CORE"), the oldest man. The tokor holds all the family money.2010, Elizabeth Berg, Ruth Wan, Ruth Lau, Senegal, Marshall Cavendish, →ISBN, page 74:
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- Senghor writes that these texts were collected “by the Abbé Boilat, a Senegalese” in his Grammar of the Wolof Language. Identifying Boilat as “a Senegalese” conflicts with the more ambiguous ways that Boilat actually presents himself[…]2019 March 5, Tobias Warner, The Tongue-Tied Imagination: Decolonizing Literary Modernity in Senegal, Fordham Univ Press, →ISBN, page 46: