insular Spaniard
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[edit]Noun
[edit]insular Spaniard (plural insular Spaniards)
- A person of Spanish descent who lives in the Philippines.
- 1902, Francis St. Clair, The Katipunan or The Rise and Fall of the Filipino Commune, Amigos del Pais (Manilla)
- The first thing the separatists desired was to get rid of the Peninsu[l]ar Spaniard; the next to go would have been the insular Spaniard, then the Spanish mestizo, then the chinee half-caste and the chinee; after which would come the gradual extinction of the various tribes.
- 1969, Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt, The Political Systems of Empires, page 76:
- Within the Spanish society, a great difference evolved between the Insular Spaniards, sent over for different periods of time from Spain, to serve as officials, etc., and the "native" Spaniards, the Creoles.
- 1902, Francis St. Clair, The Katipunan or The Rise and Fall of the Filipino Commune, Amigos del Pais (Manilla)