margosa
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of margosa
1805–15; aphetic < Portuguese amargosa, feminine of amargoso bitter
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But this is now only done by children, the grown-up women putting the margosa twigs over a cloth wrapped round the loins.
From Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston
It is noted by Bishop Whitehead24 that it was formerly the custom for women to come to the shrine of Durgamma at Bellary clad in twigs of the margosa tree.
From Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston
The neem-tree is better known, perhaps, as the margosa.
From The Social History of Smoking by George Latimer Apperson
The devotees are bound to wear a garment made of fresh margosa twigs with their leaves.
From Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston
She was helping me with a Bengali primer, what time I could spare my gaze from the near-by parrots eating ripe margosa fruit.
From Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
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