tallapoi
English
Etymology
From French talapoin, from Portuguese talapão, from Mon တၠဳ ပိုဲ (tloe poi, “our lord”).
Noun
tallapoi (plural tallapois)
- (Buddhism) Obsolete form of talapoin.
- 1667, The English Rogue, by Richard Head
- Their Priest, which they call Tallapoi, are seeming very zealously superstitious: they somewhat incline to Mahometanism; for they pretend they will not drink wine, being forbidden it by their Law, yet are abominable hypocrites: for, though they wear a sheep-skin with the wool thereon, not suffering any hair to be on their bodies, and in shew lead a chaste life, yet I found the contrary; as you shall understand by what past between one of them and my self.
- 1667, The English Rogue, by Richard Head
References
- Some Years Travels Into Divers Parts of Africa, and Asia the Great, by Sir Thomas Herbert
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