Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A kind of bead made of rough carnelian, generally of a cylindrical shape.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A bead of rough carnelian. Arangoes were formerly imported from Bombay for use in the African slave trade.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A rough
carnelian bead , formerly used inAfrica ascurrency when buyingslaves for theslave trade .
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