cangue

British  

/ kæŋ /

noun

1. (formerly in China) a large wooden collar worn by petty criminals as a punishment

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Etymology

Origin of cangue

C18: from French, from Portuguese canga yoke

Example Sentences

Solomon illustrates this with a 19th Century photograph of two people suffering the cangue, or penal collar, in which their faces are framed for public censure.

From Time Magazine Archive

And whenever Hersey needs an idea and can't find one�it happens all the time�he uses a big word instead: cangue, coffle, fulvous, hame, jingal, liripipe, m�tayer, panyar, purlin, psora, shroff, sycee.*

From Time Magazine Archive

Here I saw for the first time in my life a man carrying a cangue, and a horrible, sickening feeling seized me as I tramped through the densely-packed street and watched the poor fellow.

From Across China on Foot by Dingle, Edwin John

Said a dōshin—"His antics in the cangue will find small scope."

From The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2) by De Benneville, James S. (James Seguin)

The cangue, if its wearers were properly fed and screened from the sun, is rather a disgrace than a cruel mode of punishment.

From The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)