Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
couscous .
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Examples
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To be fat was, in those days, the most desirable attribute of a wife in the eyes of an Algerine husband, therefore kooskoos was eaten in quantity.
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Among other things there was fish, which was served and eaten with honey! but the chief among the dishes was kooskoos.
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It is not only eaten with bread, and used in the preparation of kooskoos, and other articles of food, but the Arabs reckon it a valuable remedy in various maladies.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 460 Volume 18, New Series, October 23, 1852 Various 1841
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