Japanee

English edit

Back-formation from Japanese.

Japanee (plural Japanees)

(archaic) A person from Japan.
- 1874, Ann Sophia Stephens, Phemie Frost's Experiences, page 173:
  Then there was more low bows, and we ladies swept back our trains, took steps and curtsied just as easy and graceful as they did, and Mrs. Grant talked a little with a Japanee.
- 1879, James Hingston, The Australian Abroad, page 87:
  In dealing with a Japanee you are dealing with one of nature's gentlemen. For nature's gentlemen are the Japanese, made in the older fashion of the world before money-grubbing had soiled the souls of men, cankered their hearts, […]