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"word": "West Sumatra"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English dated terms",
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1841, The Colonial Magazine and Commercial-Maritime Journal, page 447",
"text": "The Papuas are so termed in the Malay language, from their extreme darkness, approaching to black.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1856, The Quarterly Review of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, page 502",
"text": "The Papua are more numerous in the Philippine Islands than anywhere else, with the exception of New Guinea.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A person indigenous to Papua."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(dated) A person indigenous to Papua."
],
"tags": [
"dated"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈpaːpwə/",
"tags": [
"General-Australian"
]
}
],
"word": "Papua"
}
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