Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A flat wooden framework that is locked around a person's neck and borne on the shoulders, formerly used in China to punish petty criminals.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The name given by foreigners to the Chinese kia, or portable pillory, which persons convicted of certain petty crimes are condemned to kang, or carry on the shoulders, for periods varying from a few days to three months.
- To sentence to the cangue.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A very broad and heavy wooden collar which certain offenders in China are compelled to wear as a punishment.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A heavy wooden
collar oryoke borne on the shoulders and enclosing the neck and arms, formerly used in China to punish petty criminals.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an instrument of punishment formerly used in China for petty criminals; consists of a heavy wooden collar enclosing the neck and arms
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The priests are threatened with the cangue, or heavy wooden collar, and to be chained at the entrance of their
Letter from Young J. Allen to an editor,January 28, 1868 2008
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But it is remarkably effective in a country with a long history of punishment by humiliation — think of the cangue, a rectangular slab around the neck, in pre-Communist times and dunce caps in the Cultural Revolution.
Archive 2008-02-01 2008
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The priests are threatened with the cangue, or heavy wooden collar, and to be chained at the entrance of their
Letter from Young John Allen to an editor,January 28, 1868 2008
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A third attempt was punished with two months in the cangue, a wooden framework fastened about his neck and hands, used as a portable pillory.
The Last Empress Hannah Pakula 2009
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But it is remarkably effective in a country with a long history of punishment by humiliation—think of the cangue, a rectangular slab around the neck, in pre-Communist times and dunce caps in the Cultural Revolution.
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Apart from the weight of their fetters, and of the cangue in which they are thus pilloried, these men suffer much from hunger and thirst.
The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004
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The cangue, if its wearers were properly fed and screened from the sun, is rather a disgrace than a cruel mode of punishment.
The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004
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You, Cousin, you've put your own head into the cangue.
Noble House Clavell, James 1981
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You, Cousin, you've put your own head into the cangue.
Noble House Clavell, James 1981
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His reward was the cangue and bamboo saw -- _nokogirihiki_; failing death by this, he was to be crucified.
The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2)
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