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单词 kwanga
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kwangan.

/ˈkwaŋɡə/
Etymology: < an African language of the Congo basin.
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo: a kind of bread made of manioc.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > [noun] > cassava or manioc bread
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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.
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