Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Guiana and the West Indies, cassava meal.
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Examples
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Woolfe and Woolfe (15) presented an outline on the preparation of Farinha puba, which is also known as farinha de mandioca in Brazil.
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The chief produce is called farinha: the slaves are fed almost entirely on it.
A Voyage round the World A book for boys William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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Yet it is mentioned by all old travellers, and the sweet harmless variety gives very poor "farinha," Anglicè "wood meal."
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 Richard Francis Burton 1855
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The shopman, anxious to transact business immediately, took a sack of arrow-root farinha de pao and placing about a dozen little handfuls of it here and there on the ground, made signal to the slaves to come and eat, just as we see done by a servant to call together the fowls in a poultry yard.
Portuguese Scenes tellurian 2010
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The shopman, anxious to transact business immediately, took a sack of arrow-root farinha de pao and placing about a dozen little handfuls of it here and there on the ground, made signal to the slaves to come and eat, just as we see done by a servant to call together the fowls in a poultry yard.
Archive 2010-04-01 tellurian 2010
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Most of its 100 residents are in the middle of a farinhada — converting the cassava they have grown into farinha.
The Gasping Forest Shoumatoff, Alex 2007
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He learned to subsist on farinha a crunchy flour made from manioc, fish, and coffee.
The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004
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He learned to subsist on farinha a crunchy flour made from manioc, fish, and coffee.
The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004
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If we were lucky, by waiting a couple of hours, we obtained fowls, rice, and farinha.
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Every part of this plant is useful: the leaves and stalks are eaten by the horses, and the roots are ground into a pulp, which, when pressed dry and baked, forms the farinha, the principal article of sustenance in the Brazils.
bilby commented on the word farinha
Def 1... for realz?
March 11, 2015
bilby commented on the word farinha
Crikey.
March 11, 2015