Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A superior kind of cloth made in Peru and Bolivia from the wool of the alpaca.
- noun A fetid gum-resin exuded as transparent tears on the buds and young shoots of Gardenia gummifera and G. lucida. See
dikamali and Gardenia.
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Examples
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(Chambéry, 1843); Chronica Abbati Alt cumbi, 1125-1421, ed. Promis in
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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Chi-cumbi’s, or Kwa-chi-kumbi’s, country, and travelled with him afterwards, I hear, to Manyuema or Manyema.
How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004
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