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Veddahs

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Ved·da also Ved·dah  (vd)
n. pl. Vedda or Ved·das also Veddah or Ved·dahs
A member of the earliest people of Sri Lanka, originally forest-dwelling hunters but now almost completely assimilated into the modern Sinhalese population.
[Sinhalese, hunter.]
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