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- noun Plural form of
carabao .
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Examples
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Their ordinary food is rice pounded in wooden mortars, and cooked -- this is called morisqueta, [232] and is the ordinary bread of the whole country -- boiled fish (which is very abundant), the flesh of swine, deer, and wild buffaloes (which they call carabaos).
History of the Philippine Islands Antonio de Morga 1597
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There are many buffaloes, which are called carabaos, which are raised in the fields and are very spirited; others are brought tame from China; these are very numerous, and very handsome.
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As to the buffaloes, there called carabaos, there are beside the tame and domestic breed, many mountain buffaloes, which are used [as food] the same as those in
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There are many buffaloes, which are called carabaos, which are raised in the fields and are very spirited; others are brought tame from China; these are very numerous, and very handsome.
History of the Philippine Islands Antonio de Morga 1597
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Europa to wait on the table, but he did not, and when I came away, and he came with me down the mountain as far as the "carabaos" track, the two big apes stayed on the verandah as if to guard the house.
Anting-Anting Stories And other Strange Tales of the Filipinos Sargent Kayme
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"carabaos" cart in which she had been brought, and which had been hardly large enough to hold her huge body.
Anting-Anting Stories And other Strange Tales of the Filipinos Sargent Kayme
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Philippine social-realist stories have many scenes of rural or urban poverty, or farmland with chickens and carabaos, or noisy rallies teeming with activists carrying placards and bullhorns.
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Philippine social-realist stories have many scenes of rural or urban poverty, or farmland with chickens and carabaos, or noisy rallies teeming with activists carrying placards and bullhorns.
Archive 2009-07-01 2009
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There were two water buffaloes or carabaos tied to a tree.
Into the Rising Sun Patrick K. O’Donnell 2002
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Some kids even swim and lots of carabaos have their place on the lower portion where the Frenza Dam water flows.
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