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Tambouki, n. and a.|tæmˈbuːkɪ|
Also Tamboekie, Tambookie, Tambuki, etc., and with lower-case initial.
[a. S. Afr. Du., f. Tembu, tribal name + dim. ending -kje.]
†A. n. The Tembu people. Cf. Tembu n. Obs.
1786G. Forster tr. Sparrman's Voy. Cape of Good Hope II. 147 On the other side of Zomo dwells another nation, who, by the Snese-Hottentots, are called Tambukis. 1792E. Riou tr. J. van Reenan's Jrnl. Journey from Cape of Good Hope 24 The country of the Tamboekies. Ibid. 42 The country of Captain Joobie the Tambookie. 1801J. Barrow Trav. Interior S. Afr. I. iii. 201 With the Tambookies they live on friendly terms. 1824[see Amapondo]. 1874Friend (Bloemfontein) 2 Apr., We were not sure but that the Tambookies would join the confederacy against us. 1902Encycl. Brit. XXX. 3/1 The Ama-Tembu nation, popularly called Tambookies.
B. adj.
†1. Designating or pertaining to the Tembu people. Obs. Cf. Tembu a.
1827G. Thompson Trav. S. Afr. (ed. 2) II. 336 The Tambookie or Amatymba tribe. 1835N. Adams Let. 5 June in D. J. Kotzé Lett. Amer. Missionaries (1950) 75 There is a good waggon road to Natal through the Tambookie country. 1846J. C. Brown tr. Arbousset & Daumas's Explor. Tour N.E. Colony Cape of Good Hope xii. 93 Lekoro..undertook a military expedition to the Tambuqui country. 1860W. Shaw My Mission in S.E. Afr. 486 The Rev. John Ayliff, the resident Missionary, was constrained to escape with his family, accompanied by the native inhabitants of the Mission village, and take refuge in the Tembookie country. 1875Handbk. S. Afr. (S.W. Silver & Co.) 460 Tambookieland, the country formerly inhabited by the Tambookie tribes of Kaffirs.
2. Of or belonging to Tembu-land, as in tambouki grass, one of several tall coarse grasses of southern Africa, esp. one of the genus Cymbopogon or Hyparrhenia; tambouki wood, tamboti wood (see tambotie 1).
1837J. Kirkman in F. Owen Diary (1926) 158 The mother and child had hidden under the long Tambookie grass. 1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Tambookie-wood, a hard handsome furniture-wood: when powdered it is used by the Zulus of Africa as an emetic. 1885Rider Haggard K. Solomon's Mines iv, Dry tambouki grass..is made into a bed. 1905Blackw. Mag. Sept. 382/1 [The grass] was dashed aside by some large object that came rapidly towards him, but was concealed beneath the long tambouki. 1910J. Buchan Prester John xiv. 230, I was..into a piece of parkland with long, waving tambuki grass. 1963H. C. Bosman Unto Dust 119 Her hair was bleached the yellow of tamboekie grass in winter. |