pombe
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of pombe
Swahili
Example Sentences
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These gifts consisted of stalks of barley and of "pombe."
From Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne
At home they will eat perforce cankey, fufu, kiki, and bad fish, washing them down with mimbo, bamboo-wine, and pitto, hopless beer, the pombe of the East Coast.
From To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I by Sir Richard Francis Burton
On coming here, he had been bewitched by Kamrasi's frontier officer, who put the charm into a pot of pombe.
From The Discovery of the Source of the Nile by John Hanning Speke
The hunters formed a select circle round the drummers and the pombe pots; a larger circle, made by about three hundred people—men, women, boys, and girls—surrounded the hunters.
From My Kalulu, Prince, King and Slave A Story of Central Africa by Henry M. (Henry Morton) Stanley
The twins were not buried, as ordinary people are buried, under ground, but placed in an earthenware pot, such as the Wanyoro use for holding pombe.
From The Discovery of the Source of the Nile by John Hanning Speke
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