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US
/mɔɫˈtiz/
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NOUN
- the national language of the Republic of Malta; a Semitic language derived from Arabic but with many loan words from Italian, Spanish, and Norman-French
- a native or inhabitant of Malta
- a term applied indiscriminately in the United States to any short-haired bluish-grey cat
- breed of toy dogs having a long straight silky white coat
ADJECTIVE
-
of or relating to the island or republic of Malta or its inhabitants
Maltese customs officers
How To Use Maltese In A Sentence
- In The Maltese Falcon, the dandified villain is a corpulent homosexual with a lustful penchant for ancient art and gunsels.
- These Maltese couples then raised a generation of full-blooded Maltese children who had never lived in the mother country.
- For all you chaps that replied to my comment below, thanks but i also agree with Mr. S. Ross when he said that we as citizens get together and practice more vigilance and report to the local authorities, and not be like the three wise monkies See no evil * hear no evil * say no evil* thats all in the past we are now looking into the future for the sake of all our Maltese citizens and no doubt although we are a small country but roar like a lion. Timesofmalta.com
- Maltese
- When I went to Washington at Christmas I brought with me, at my sister's request, a giant bucket of Maltesers, and we sat and ate them, one after another, for hours.
- Before he came to us De Malet was military commandant at Oran, and it was there that he did one of his best strokes -- outgeneralling a camel-driver from Tangier, one of those thorough-paced Moorish rascals of whom the saying goes, 'Two Maltese to a Jew, and three Jews to a Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878
- We kept a pug and a little Pomeranian and a Maltese, and gave my parents a little poodle.
- The Maltese have made it abundantly clear over the years that they would love to host Eurovision, even promising to build a new stadium if needs be.
- I am well aware that there is a Sicilian _in fabula_ who is not "mafioso"; that the crude banditism which sits in every Corsican's bones has raised him to the elysium of martyrs and heroes and not, where he ought to have gone, to the gallows; that the Maltese are not merely cantankerous and bigoted (Catholic) Arabs, but also sober, industrious, and economical. Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia
- Also, seems the "Maltese Unicorn" surfaced in Paris in 1897, at an infamous orgy-turned-mass murder, where it was spoken of as Le Godemiché mauvais. Insert [nothing witty] here.
