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  • She takes corn and makes it into pâte, which is locally called "mawe" (cornmeal mash).

    Kiva Loans 2009

  • Giriama: dzugu mawe Kambe: tendegwa Kisii: chinchugu

    Chapter 7 1999

  • Thouars; Glycine subterranea L. Chonyi: tendegwa, nzugu mawe English: Bambarra groundnut, Madagascar groundnut, earthnut, baffin pea, Bambarra bean

    Chapter 7 1999

  • Mid fayre worde. ⁊ myd some. þeyh we ne beon at on acorde. we mawe bet myd fayre worde. wiþ {} vte cheste· and bute vyhte.

    Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall

  • [Sidenote: Beware of green meat; it weakens your belly.] bewar {e} of saladis, grene metis, & of frut {es} rawe for þey make many a mañ haue a feble mawe.

    Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

  • Take þer mawe of þe grete Swyne. and fyfe oþer sex of pigges mawe. fyll hem full of þe self fars. & sowe hem fast, perboile hem. take hem up & make smale prews [2] of gode past and frye hem. take þese prews yfryed & seeþ [3] hem þicke in þe mawes on þe fars made after

    The Forme of Cury A Roll of Ancient English Cookery Compiled, about A.D. 1390 Samuel Pegge 1750

  • Lomba Tingkat PAUD Kota Lhokseu - mawe, Darwati didampingi Juariah, Polda Aceh, sejumlah di antaranya masyarakat yang menyimpan sen - III/2009, wakil Bupati (Wabup) Aceh Utara,

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  • As for the Prince, in all his sweet gorgde mawe, and his ranck fleshe that sinfully renewes the noones excesse in the nights daungerous surfeits, what meanes or miserie from our birth dooth flowe,

    Sir Thomas More Anonymous 1590

  • How in this generall Courte of short liu'de pleasure the worlde, creation is the ample foode, that is digested in the mawe of tyme.

    Sir Thomas More Anonymous 1590

  • And chil haue it out of her mawe, or els chal lose my lyfe.

    Gammer Gurton's Needle Anonymous 1575

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