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- noun Plural form of
stengah .
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Examples
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And that night at the Club there was a long sitting, and Manop, the patient barman, had to record the disappearance of many extra "stengahs," [1] as the matter was discussed in all its bearings.
From Jungle to Java The Trivial Impressions of a Short Excursion to Netherlands India Arthur Louis Keyser 1890
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Several of "The Community" kindly came to see the start and sat calm and superior over their long "stengahs," while the intending traveller endeavoured to compress into a quarter of an hour the final instructions for the regulation of affairs in his absence.
From Jungle to Java The Trivial Impressions of a Short Excursion to Netherlands India Arthur Louis Keyser 1890
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_stengahs_ (Malay for _half_), or whiskey and sodas, is well-nigh universal among the European population, not always excluding the women and clergy.
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