Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small basketwork palanquin slung from a pole carried on the shoulders of two men.
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Examples
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Indeed, so extensively was the hunting of deer practised that bows and arrows were often called kago-yumi and kago-ya (kago signifies "deer").
A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886
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I carried the traditional handbag called a kago, which has a basketweave base topped by a drawstring pouch of colorful tie dyed silk, shibori, which is made by tying silk into a myriad of minute knots with thread before it is dyed.
Geisha, A Life Mineko Iwasaki with Rande Brown 2002
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I carried the traditional handbag called a kago, which has a basketweave base topped by a drawstring pouch of colorful tie dyed silk, shibori, which is made by tying silk into a myriad of minute knots with thread before it is dyed.
Geisha, A Life Mineko Iwasaki with Rande Brown 2002
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The kago is a sort of palanquin borne on the shoulders of four stout men, the path being impracticable even for mules; but were it less steep and wider, the Japanese have no mules.
Due West or Round the World in Ten Months Maturin Murray Ballou 1857
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Note 148: CS 990; * Proto-Savanna Bantu * - kàg - "specialized screen used to protect gardens"; PNCEB * - kago "protective (property) charm/medicine"; proto-Sabaki * - kag - "protect garden by medicine"; e.g.,
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Nna re bowa phooko le phookwane, Mabje-maramaga mabje magolo ka mabedi e kago mae a tshilwane.
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Although the para is more taxing, the kago occupies the longest period of work in the uma.
FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH THE PATCH CULTIVATION AND SWIDDEN FARMING PRACTICES 2007
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Nna re bowa phooko le phookwane, Mabje-maramaga mabje magolo ka mabedi e kago mae a tshilwane.
CONTENTS: 2007
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I found the post at "dokeo kago grapho soi kratistos Theophilos" on the Sign of Jonah to be particularly interesting.
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E re bontšha tsela ya go akgofiša mošomo wa kago leswa le tlhabollo.
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