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- noun Plural form of
mauma .
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Examples
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On the other are ranged the women, the front benches holding the sedate old "maumas," with gaudy yellow and red kerchiefs tied about their heads in stiff high turbans, and others folded _à la_ Lady Washington over their bosoms; behind them sit the young women in white woolen "frocks," without handkerchiefs on head or breast; while the children who are not minding babies at home or hunting rabbits in the woods are gathered about the door.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 Various
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And as the succession of careless, ignorant cooks and housemaids come and go they cannot understand the kind allowances made for their faults by those who remember the tender nursing of the dear old maumas.
Arthur Peronneau Ford. "Life in the Confederate Army; Being Personal Experiences ..." 1905
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