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- noun The practice, in
Mauritania , of forciblyfattening young girls in preparation formarriage
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Examples
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Girls from rural families are taken for leblouh at special "fattening farms" where older women, or the children's aunts or grandmothers, will administer pounded millet, camel's milk and water in quantities that make them ill.
Gates of Vienna 2009
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Aminetou Mint Ely, a women's rights campaigner, said girls as young as five were still being subjected to the tradition of leblouh every year.
Gates of Vienna 2009
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