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Chinese

a.
  1. Of or pertaining to China; peculiar to China.
    2. Chinese paper .
    See India paper, under India.
    Chinese wax ,
    a snowy-white, waxlike substance brought from China. It is the bleached secretion of certain insects of the family Coccidæ especially Coccus Sinensis.

n. sing. & pl.
  1. A native or natives of China, or one of that yellow race with oblique eyelids who live principally in China.

Chineses was used as a plural by the contemporaries of Shakespeare and Milton.