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Arango

Arango \A*ran"go\ ([.a]*r[a^][ng]"g[-o]), n.; pl. Arangoes (-g[=o]z). [The native name.] A bead of rough carnelian. Arangoes were formerly imported from Bombay for use in the African slave trade.
--McCulloch. [1913 Webster] ||

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arango

n. A rough carnelian bead, formerly used in Africa as currency when buying slaves for the slave trade.

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Arango

Arango is one of fifteen parishes (administrative divisions) in Pravia, a municipality within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain.

The population is 264 ( INE 2007).

Usage examples of "arango".

In this reality, Arango died during birth, when Rolisa was devoured by the Black Mass.

Her absence made it desirable to get troublesome without delay, but it wasn't necessary because in a couple of minutes the door to the inner room opened and Pete Arango came out, and I got a sign from Purley and went in.

It was a name, "Pete Arango," and it was written in a small fine hand quite different from the scribbling on the face of the card.

I sent a man to Salamanca last night, partly to learn why Harry Gould had so carefully preserved an old garage job-card, and partly because he had written on the back of it that name Pete Arango, and I knew that Pete Arango was in the employ of the Updegraff Nurseries.

I wouldn't be surprised if Gould even got a written confession from Pete Arango that you had bribed him to infect the rhodalea plantation, by threatening to inform Mr.

Gould saw Pete Arango at the Flower Show, and the temptation was too much for him.

As long as ink and paper lasted for Pete Arango to write confessions with, you were hooked.

As for the Black Mass, there was something attractive, even beautiful, in the way that it was slithering, and Arango burbled happily just before the Black Mass dropped down on him after having eaten through his mother in less time than it took him to make a cooing noise.

For that matter, Semmes' principal opponent in the November elec­tions, Doroteo Arango, would probably prosecute the war with more vigor than Wilson had done: Arango was a young fire-eater if ever there was one.

Without hesitation, he voted for Gabriel Semmes over Doroteo Arango for president.

And if the black bastards voted, they’d have elected that damn lunatic Arango last year.