Crossword clues for lunda
lunda
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lunda \Lunda\ n. A genus of birds including some of the puffins.
Syn: genus Lunda.
Wikipedia
Lu(u)nda or Ruund may refer to:
Lunda is a former Ancient Roman city and bishopric and present Latin Catholic titular see in Asia Minor (Asian Turkey).
Usage examples of "lunda".
A good example is that of the southern Lunda and their related neighbors of the lower Congo.
There survives from 1831, for example, the account of an altogether agreeable encounter between a brave little Portuguese expedition, headed by Major Monteiro and Captain Gamitto, and the court of the ruler of Lunda in the southern Congo -- that Muata Cazembe whose lineage went back by tradition into a remote past.
THE first hour of the journey from Lunda to Kuching, along the Sarawak coast, Carey Black pressed back in the rear seat of the government car and hunched into himself, with his rangy, putteed legs doubled up in front of him.
His job as government engineer in Lunda, surveying the coastal jungles and laying out prospective roads for future development, had called for frequent trips to Kuching, to Foreign Service headquarters.
Moreover she had the power of deciding the election of a new Galagi, as the petty chiefs who now held all that was left of the Lunda kingdom were now called.
Sheena had told him of her past, Rick reasoned that Ebid Ela had at one time been Mateyenda of the Lunda kingdom, and that the old woman had bequeathed her high office to the white foster-child she had cared for from infancy.
One of the cones looked as if it had been sheared off close to the base to form the foundation of the old, Lunda stronghold which huddled on top of it.
As I have said, of the royal house of Lunda only my son and I are left.
But no man moved or lifted his voice to answer the old challenge of the Lunda king.