tembo

They call them tembo which is Swahili for Elephant.

CNN Transcript Aug 25, 2005 2005

The blacks then abandoned themselves to the most furious orgies, and got fearfully drunk on "tembo," a kind of ardent spirits drawn from the cocoa-nut tree, and an extremely

Word of the Day 2009

Here he was now riding the face of a giant bull, a massive tembo, overlord of the forest.

Jay Kirk: Museum Of Natural History And Carl Akeley's Jounrey To Build Its African Wing Jay Kirk 2010

Just the tembo in her tumbo or pilipili from her pepperpot?

Finnegans Wake 2006

But whether it did not proceed from my imagination or — No; I believe it proceeded from Kalulu, who must have shouted, “Tembo, tembo! bana yango!”

How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004

The blacks then abandoned themselves to the most furious orgies, and got fearfully drunk on “tembo,” a kind of ardent spirits drawn from the cocoa-nut tree, and an extremely heady sort of beer called “togwa.”

Five Weeks in a Balloon 2003

_Tembo_ was a mountain, _tembo_ was a black block of breathing basalt.

This Crowded Earth Robert Bloch 1955

Women emerged from the house carrying _tembo_ in gourd bottles, and smaller half-gourds from which to drink it.

The Leopard Woman Stewart Edward White 1909

It has brought us a long journey; it has won us the friendship of the great chief; it has revealed to us much riches in the teeth of _tembo_, the elephant, though that must not be spoken aside from us three; it has restored the light to _Bwana_

The Leopard Woman Stewart Edward White 1909

The tattoo or tembo of the Matambwe and Upper Makonde very much resembles the drawings of the old Egyptians; wavy lines, such as the ancients made to signify water, trees and gardens enclosed in squares, seem to have been meant of old for the inhabitants who lived on the Rovuma, and cultivated also, the son takes the tattoo of his father, and thus it has been perpetuated, though the meaning now appears lost.

The Last Journals of David Livingstone from 1865 to His Death Ed 1874