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.

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  • noun A rough carnelian bead, formerly used in Africa as currency when buying slaves for the slave trade.

Etymologies

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Native name.

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