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noun In Samoa, a name applied to the turmeric-plant (Curcuma longa), the fleshy rhizome of which yields a yellow coloring matter which the natives use in ornamenting their bark cloth and for painting their skin. See turmeric and huldee.

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I guess only in America will an Italian consider himself ango/white.

Top Hillary Supporter: Some Whites In Pennsylvania "Are Not Ready" To Support Black Candidate 2009
Another model we share with ango-saxon countries is the single parent household, especially in racial minorities.

cake 2007
I like it but I can see the always alliterating ango saxonly might grate

'This is the worst.' Newmania 2007
Not much I wouldn't be sitting there handing my clasp ango -- Well, I wouldn't!

Left Tackle Thayer Ralph Henry Barbour 1907
In nave pedes aunt fu - nes, quibus interiores veli ango - li veraua puppim trahuntur. lntdo pedibms aequis, leni vento.

P. Ovidii Nasonis Fastorum libri VI. Ovid, Publius Ovidius Naso, Gottlieb Erdmann Gierig 1812
Nam; huiufcemodi non mon dicuntur, contra qui cum ango -. ribus curis atque perpetuo cum morbis conflidantur, eo ioco ha - bentur, ac fi mortui eflent.

Disquisitio philiologico-exegetica de pietate Heber, Johann 1789
Sia il tiro da farfi aii'ingiu il fegnato fk con aualunque ango*

Opera geometrica Torricelli, Evangelista, 1608-1647 1644
And yes, she’s knitting ango-american style — which, by an amazing coincidence, is the style my model knits in!

“How Mirka Got Her Sword,” page 45 2008
“ “ “, Race and Manifest Destiny: the origins of American racial ango-saxonism.

Transcendentalism Goodman, Russell 2008