cangue
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of cangue
C18: from French, from Portuguese canga yoke
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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
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 Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
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 James S. (James Seguin) De Benneville
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 Edwin John Dingle
That thing that looked like a tree box is what they call a cangue.
From Baseball Joe Around the World Pitching on a Grand Tour by Lester Chadwick
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