tallapoi

English

Etymology

From French talapoin, from Portuguese talapão, from Mon တၠဳ ပိုဲ (tloe poi, “our lord”).

Noun

tallapoi (plural tallapois)

1. (Buddhism) Obsolete form of talapoin.
   • 1667, The English Rogue, by Richard Head[1]

     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.

References

• Some Years Travels Into Divers Parts of Africa, and Asia the Great, by Sir Thomas Herbert