Definitions
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- noun South Africa A type of
sweet snack food consisting of driedapricot made into apulp and flavoured withsalt andsugar .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I have bought some Cape 'confeyt'; apricots, salted and then sugared, called 'mebos' -- delicious!
Letters from the Cape Lucie Duff Gordon 1845
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Dried fruit and fruit rolls, mebos, dates or fruit dainties
unknown title 2009
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Dried fruit and fruit rolls, mebos, dates or fruit dainties
unknown title 2009
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Also, one of my sources attributed mebos to Afrikaans, probably (my italics) from the Japanese umeboshi.
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Nippostrongylus kendo kyu nisei kesa-gatame kyudo No keyaki linked verse nogaku kiaki mai noh kibei maiko nori kiku makimono norimon Kikuchi mama-san norito kikumon mamushi noshi kikyo mana notan ki-mon matsu nunchakus kimono matsuri oban kimono sleeve matsuyama, adj. obang kin mebos obe kiri medaka obi kirigami Meiji odori kirimon menuki ofuro kirin metake o-goshi koan miai oiran mikado ojime sub mikan Okayama, adj. kobang Mikimoto Okazaki kobe, adj.
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