2. Verb. (third-person singular of mambo) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mambos
1. mambo [v] - See also: mambo
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mambos
Literary usage of Mambos
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Conspicuous Destruction: War, Famine, and the Reform Process in Mozambique by Human Rights Watch (Organization)., Human Rights Watch (Organization (1992)
"In many ways, the mambos are the counterpart to FRELIMO party secretaries at the
district level. They distribute houses, land and jobs to the newcomers, ..."
2. Impressions of South Africa by James Bryce Bryce (1900)
"All that has been gathered is that it was the dwelling of a line of mambos, or
chiefs, the last of whom was burned here by ..."
3. Six Years of a Traveller's Life in Western Africa by Francisco Travassos Valdez (1861)
"... or place of the mambos' tombs, and stretches to Lunda; 7, ... or manes of
their mambos, prisoners of war ; and if they should not have any of these, ..."
4. The African Repository by American Colonization Society (1840)
"... the town of Heddington was attacked,- on the 17th of March, about day-break,
by three or four hundred warriors, composed of Boatswains, mambos, Veys, ..."
5. The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, Emperor of the French: With a Preliminary by Walter Scott (1832)
"... of mambos-gb had do- longer rested on the popular basis, but that, lives-ed
up to Es-s-gland Napper Tandy Black- in a much greater degree than could ..."
6. A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct by Bernard Burke (1866)
"... about the year 1122, lieutenant of the Marches of Weiss, and afterwards steward
of lbs household, and lord and governor of. those mambos. ..."
7. The Lands of Cazembe: Lacerda's Journey to Cazembe in 1798 by Francisco José de Lacerda e Almeida, Pedro Joä̃o Baptista, Amaro José, Charles Tilstone Beke (1873)
"... with the addition only that there were seen two skulls attached to a tree,
which, they were told, were those of two powerful mambos whom ..."
8. The Leisure Hour edited by William Haig Miller, James Macaulay, William Stevens (1894)
"... rocks, etc., but since the defection of the " Last of the mambos " divine
communications have been made almost exclusively through human mediums. ..."
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