Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A viverrine quadruped of Africa, Crossarchus obscurus, about 19 inches long, of a nearly uniform dark-brown color, paler on the head, the feet blackish, and the snout long and slender.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The kusimanse.
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- noun The
kusimanse , a genus ofmongoose , Crossarchus.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The word mangue refers to the mangrove swamps around the Recife area and, as Larry Crook suggests in his book on northeastern Brazilian music, the mangroves acted as a powerful metaphor for the processes of soaking-up and fertilization that these musicians pursued.
PopMatters 2009
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The word mangue refers to the mangrove swamps around the Recife area and, as Larry Crook suggests in his book on northeastern Brazilian music, the mangroves acted as a powerful metaphor for the processes of soaking-up and fertilization that these musicians pursued.
PopMatters 2009
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The word mangue refers to the mangrove swamps around the Recife area and, as Larry Crook suggests in his book on northeastern Brazilian music, the mangroves acted as a powerful metaphor for the processes of soaking-up and fertilization that these musicians pursued.
PopMatters 2009
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The word mangue refers to the mangrove swamps around the Recife area and, as Larry Crook suggests in his book on northeastern Brazilian music, the mangroves acted as a powerful metaphor for the processes of soaking-up and fertilization that these musicians pursued.
PopMatters Richard Elliott 2009
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Straight up Petty Cash catches PJ Suleiman's hip-swaying samba paulistano, hauls a mangue bass out of his sample array, and brings in a beat that has the bass drivers bowing and booming in their cabs.
Archive 2008-07-01 Karen Burnham 2008
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Straight up Petty Cash catches PJ Suleiman's hip-swaying samba paulistano, hauls a mangue bass out of his sample array, and brings in a beat that has the bass drivers bowing and booming in their cabs.
Brasyl, by Ian McDonald Karen Burnham 2008
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Chère sweetest mangue, voila quelque chose qui me fait regretter encore plus de ne plus être stagiaire chez Pierre Hermé.
foodbeam » Comme chez Pierre Hermé – Sablés aux olives noires 2007
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This was done without getting stuck in the past, colourful Brazil of exported nostalgia; the book moves on pretty quickly in time to the innovative music scene of Recife which mixed a whole lot of traditional sounds maracatu and samba combined with hip-hop, rap, electronica into a sound called mangue.
That Music In Brazil book I borrowed a couple of weeks ago jinty 2006
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Among grafted varieties the _mangue_ is quite as delicious as the orange.
Two Years in the French West Indies Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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They mix the hip-hop-inspired mangue bit, or mangue beat, with the brassy
NPR Topics: News 2011
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