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‖ tombo|ˈtɒmbəʊ| Also 8 in F. form tombe. [Native name.] General African W. Coast name of the fruit of the wine palm, Raphia vinifera; also, a native palm wine obtained from it.
1704Barbot's Guinea in Churchill's Voy. V. 144 The fruit produced by the tombe tree, from which they also draw the wine called bourdon or tombe. 1819Rees Cycl. s.v. Ivory, A species of fruit growing on a sort of palmtree, which the natives call tombo or bourbon. 1908Daily Chron. 7 Dec. 4/4 Considerable evidence..adduced to show that intoxication is more frequent from drinking tombo and other native brews than from drinking imported spirit. |