cangue
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From French cangue, from Portuguese canga.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
cangue (plural cangues)
- A heavy wooden collar or yoke borne on the shoulders and enclosing the neck and arms, formerly used in East Asia to punish thieves and other criminals.
Translations[edit]
heavy wooden collar or yoke
Anagrams[edit]
French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio: (file)
Noun[edit]
cangue f (plural cangues)
Further reading[edit]
- “cangue”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Galician[edit]
Verb[edit]
cangue
- inflection of cangar:
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