cangue
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of cangue
C18: from French, from Portuguese canga yoke
Example Sentences
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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
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
On receipt of this edict, Pao Lao-yeh liberated Ts’ao Ching-hsiu from the cangue, and allowed him to go free.
From Myths and Legends of China by Werner, E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers)
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 Chadwick, Lester
As in the English pillory, the name of the man and the nature of his offence are inscribed on the cangue.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" by Various
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