Gentoos

Noun

Gentoo (plural Gentoos)

1. (historical) A non-Muslim inhabitant of India, a Hindu; specifically, in Southern India, an ethnic-Telugu.
   • The Greeks, and all the Celtic nations, accordingly, burned the bodies of the dead, as the Gentoos do at this day; while the Egyptians, among whom fuel was extremely scarce, placed them in pyramidal monuments, which were the symbols of fire; hence come those prodigious structures which still adorn...1786, Richard Payne Knight, On the Worship of Priapus, section XI
2. The gentoo penguin (Pygoscelis papua), a species of penguin.

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