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cabook|kəˈbuːk|
Also kabook.
[‘Perhaps the Port. cabouco or cavouco a quarry. It is not in Singh. Dictionaries' (Yule).]
The name given in Sri Lanka to a reddish gneissoid building-stone, soft when quarried but hardening by exposure to the air; laterite.
1834S. C. Chitty Ceylon Gazetteer 75 The houses are built of cabook, and neatly whitewashed with chunam. 1836Penny Cycl. VI. 452/2 A reddish loam resulting from the decomposition of clay iron-stone called cabook. 1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Kabook. 1941Archit. Rev. XC. 75/1 In more expensive types of building solid walls—of cabook, or stone and mud, or occasionally brick—replace the bamboo framework. |