tombo

Kwere speakers also note tombo to name the matrilineage of the * - kolo matriclan.

Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE 2008

Ernest was just finishing a tombo, beer made from mahango, the local grain, costing 20 cents a cup.

The Elephant's Secret Sense Caitlin O'Connell 2007

Ernest was just finishing a tombo, beer made from mahango, the local grain, costing 20 cents a cup.

The Elephant's Secret Sense Caitlin O'Connell 2007

Ernest was just finishing a tombo, beer made from mahango, the local grain, costing 20 cents a cup.

The Elephant's Secret Sense Caitlin O'Connell 2007

Ernest was just finishing a tombo, beer made from mahango, the local grain, costing 20 cents a cup.

The Elephant's Secret Sense Caitlin O'Connell 2007

Her _ninghio_, her _tombo_, the image of Uzume, even the cotton monkey, were put carefully away for her own children.

Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes Charles Madison Curry 1906

Several lovely species of dragon-flies (tombo) hover about the pondlet on hot bright days.

Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series Lafcadio Hearn 1877

Those little streaks of paint you noticed upon the top-piece now reveal their purpose; as the tombo darts hither and thither, even the tints appear to be those of a real dragon-fly; and even the sound of the flitting toy imitates the dragon-fly's hum.

Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series Lafcadio Hearn 1877

All the tombo sold, however, are not as good as this one; we have been lucky.

Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series Lafcadio Hearn 1877

I ever saw, gleaming with metallic colours indescribable, and spectrally slender -- is called Tenshi-tombo, 'the Emperor's dragon-fly.'

Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series Lafcadio Hearn 1877