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noun
A Chinese female immigrant who came to Malaya or Singapore between the 1920s and 1940s in search of construction or industrial work, mostly from the Sanshui district of modern-day Guangdong in China.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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History
From Cantonese 三水 (saam1 seoi2).
