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  • Do not limit yourself to the delicious orange juice; try some tropical specialties like "caju" (cashew-apple), "mamao" (papaya) and "manga" (mango).

    Rio De Janeiro 2007

  • El -ato goes around talking in 19th-century gaucho slang-cigarettes are "pitos," butts are "puchos," it isn't ca-a he drinks but "la tacuara," and when he's drunk he's "mamao."

    Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

  • "You look more like a Gaucho Marx," Graciela drawls, and leaves Felipe to go back to the treatment he's working on for von G'll, using El Nato's copy of Martin Fierro, which has long been thumbed into separate loose pages, and smells of horses, each of whose names El -ato, tearfully mamao, can tell you ....

    Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

  • A no ka lilo ana o Laieikawai i wahine mau ma ka berita paa, nolaila, haawiia ae la ia ia kekahi mau hana mana a pau ma ke ano Akua, e like me kana kane; koe nae ka mana hiki ole ke ike i na mea huna, a me na hana pohihihi i hanaia ma kahi mamao, no kana kane wale no.

    The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai Martha Warren Beckwith 1915

  • a kahea iho la ma ka inoa o ua ipu nei, ia wa ka hoomaka ana e ike i na mea a pau i hanaia ma kahi mamao.

    The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai Martha Warren Beckwith 1915

  • e haawi mai oe i ike no'u, i ike hiki ke ike aku ma kahi mamao, i ike au

    The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai Martha Warren Beckwith 1915

  • The author's informant can not tell whether these followed the fierce, strict cult of Kane or the milder cult of Lono.] [Footnote 192: _Hoo-mamao-lani_.

    Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula Nathaniel Bright Emerson 1877

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