单词 | kwanga |
释义 | kwangan. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo: a kind of bread made of manioc. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > [noun] > cassava or manioc bread cassava1577 Indian bread1697 cassada1802 chipa1827 kwanga1891 garri1926 1891 H. Ward Five Years with Congo Cannibals (ed. 3) xii. 245 Buying fowls, kwanga (boiled cassava) sugar-cane, and manioc, for which I gave brass wire, empty bottles, tins, [etc.]. 1907 Daily Chron. 28 Oct. 7/3 With the exception of a few people..who supply the State with ‘kwanga’ (native bread)..all the people I saw are taxed with rubber. 1908 H. H. Johnston G. Grenfell & Congo II. xxviii. 796 In those happy days ten cakes of kwanga..could be bought for one brass rod. 1971 Guardian 31 July 10/6 Kwanga..looks..like..candlewax. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < |
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