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  • I get them confused too, so I got definitions when I did the illo ... lol. gluttony comes from the word gulla which is the throat, so technically it’s anything you consume through the throat!

    Illustration Friday– Gluttony « Magic Lantern Arts 2005

  • The most extraordinary negro dialect I know of is the "gulla" (sometimes spelled "gullah") of the rice plantation negroes of South Carolina and of the islands off the South Carolina and Georgia coast.

    American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' Julian Street 1913

  • Canadian of Quebec and northern New York there is a strong resemblance; but the Creole negro language is a thing entirely apart, being made up, it is said, partly from French and partly from African word sounds, just as the "gulla" of the South Carolina coast is made up from African and

    American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' Julian Street 1913

  • Kewra water is commonly used in milk-based Indian sweets such as ras gulla, gulab majun, ras mala, and kheer as well as rice dishes like biryani.

    Archive 2007-12-01 Michelle Krell Kydd 2007

  • Kewra water is commonly used in milk-based Indian sweets such as ras gulla, gulab majun, ras mala, and kheer as well as rice dishes like biryani.

    Pandanus Flower: Flavor for the New Year Michelle Krell Kydd 2007

  • As he stalked pasta tall, lean, very erect figure, though he must have been seventy years old or thereabouts, with great sweeping white moustaches like the wings of a gulla whisper of Voilà Pétain went rippling through the vast crowd.

    As I Please 1947

  • Here is a gulla dialect story, with a line-for-line translation.

    American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' Julian Street 1913

  • A lady sent a gulla negro with a message to a friend.

    American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' Julian Street 1913

  • A Charleston lady tells me that negroes on different rice plantations -- even on adjoining plantations -- speak dialects which differ somewhat, and I know of my own knowledge that thick gulla is almost incomprehensible to white persons who have not learned, by long practice, to understand it.

    American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' Julian Street 1913

  • (To get the gulla effect the sounds should be uttered very rapidly.)

    American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' Julian Street 1913

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