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That's what big comfy knickers are called - some girls think that anything as large as a tanga are they still called tangas? perhaps now they're called minis.
Granny Knickers ailbhe 2005
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Like the locals, I bought myself a bunch of tangas string bikinis and have never looked back.
Shape Shifters Teri Agins 2011
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Derek's one of the worst, cautioned Pat, a warning that proved tragically irresistible to poor, pissed Rainie who, believing she'd finally found a Clyde to her slurring, marblewashed Bonnie, sprinted after the bruiser with her tangas round her ankles.
World of Lather 2011
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Qirans and tangas were the silver currencies preponderant in Persia and Bukhara.
Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008
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The next day, Myra taught Gillam how to write tangas.
MORE FROM GINNY BATES: ALLIE Maggie Jochild 2007
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The range, which is available from www.kiniki.com, includes an all-in-one swimsuit, bikinis and wraps for women, plus briefs, hipsters and tangas for men.
‘See Through’ Bikini Lets You Tan All Over | Impact Lab 2009
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There is also a sort of siluer money which they call Patachines, and is worth 6 tangas of good money, which is 360 reyes, and is stamped with two letters, S.T. which is S. Thomas on the one side, and the armes of Portugall on the other side.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Note that if a man bargaine in marchandize, it behooueth to demaund tangas of good money: for by nominating tangas onely, is vnderstood to be base money of 60 basaruches, which wanteth of the good money vt supra.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Goa, but the duckat of gold in value is 10 tangas of good money.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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There is also a kind of mony called Cruzados stamped with the atmes of Portugall, and is worth 6 tangas good mony, the larines are euery 9 of them worth 2 cruzados, which is 12 tangas good mony, and these larines be of those which are stamped in Balsara and
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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