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Starchy palm
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sago
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"starch made of the piths of palms," 1570s, via Portuguese and Dutch from Malay sagu , the name of the palm tree from which it is obtained (attested in English in this sense from 1550s). Also borrowed in French ( sagou ), Spanish ( sagu ), German ( Sago ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Fever: Milk, arrowroot, sago , eggs, tea and sugar, with bread. ▪ Rice was their basic food and their most important food crop, far ahead of maize, taro or sago . ▪ Those who were fortunate enough to be in the sick wards were ...
Usage examples of sago.
The staple food of the people is sago, which they obtain from the sago-palm.
Accordingly in the months of May and June, when the sea is calm, the natives cross over to the mainland in their canoes and obtain a supply of sago in exchange for the products of their island.
But they also cultivate many kinds of bananas and vegetables, together with sugar-cane, sago, and tobacco.
They are a seafaring folk, who extend their voyages all along the coast for the purpose of trade, bartering mats, pearls, fish, coco-nuts, and other tree-fruits which grow on their islands for taro, bananas, sugar-cane, and sago, which grow on the mainland.
They are represented by men who disguise their bodies in dense masses of sago leaves and their faces in grotesque masks with long hooked noses.
Moreover they must abstain from the ordinary articles of diet and confine themselves to half-baked cakes of sago and other unpalatable viands.
From far and near the people have collected sago, coco-nuts, and other food.
Zagorianski, Zagozianski, Madame la Generale de Sago, Madame la Generale de Fourteen Consonants--oh these infernal Russian names!
But the General we have now nearly always makes sago puddings, and they are the watery kind, and you cannot pretend anything with them, not even islands, like you do with porridge.
There were extensive plantations of sago and date palms, orange and pomegranate and banana, and various kinds of groundnuts.
Pepper and some other spices flourish, and the soil with but a little cultivation produces rice wet and dry, tapioca, gambier, sugar-cane, coffee, yams, sweet potatoes, cocoa, sago, cotton, tea, cinchona, india rubber, and indigo.
They are chiefly sugar, pepper, tin, nutmegs, mace, sago, tapioca, rice, buffalo hides and horns, rattans, gutta, india rubber, gambier, gums, coffee, dye-stuffs, and tobacco, but the island itself, though its soil looks rich from its redness, only produces pepper and gambier.
As we drove out of the town the houses became fewer and the trees denser, with mosques here and there among them, and in a few minutes we were in the great dark forest of cocoa, betel, and sago palms, awfully solemn and oppressive in the hot stillness of the evening.
The influence of Holland has altogether vanished, as is fitting, for she cared only for nutmegs, sago, tapioca, tin and pepper.
It was composed of remarkably unbleached sago, which they make from the sago-palm, boiled down with sugar to nearly a jelly.