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ingubu S. Afr.|ɪŋˈguːbəʊ|
Also 9 ingoobu, ingouboo, ingubo.
[Nguni; cf. Fanagalo ngubo, Bantu-Botatwe ingubo, blanket, clothes.]
Applied to articles of dress offered for sale to the native inhabitants of Natal.
1833S. Kay Trav. Caffraria i. 37 He maintained that every thing around him, mountains, rivers, grass, cattle, and even his ingubu, ‘beast-skin garment’, proved the truth of what had been said respecting the being of a God. 1837F. Owen Diary (1926) 25 They [sc. the natives] asked in exchange for their fowls, Indian corn and pumpkins, either handkerchiefs, blankets or ‘ingubo’ i.e. a mantle or carosse. Ibid. 77 He..abruptly asked me what was the use of giving all that ingoobu to the children, alluding to the Kilts of Dingareen with which I have clothed the boys. 1860W. Shaw Story of Mission in S.-E. Afr. 406 A Kaffir wears this ingubu, or ‘kaross’, with the hairy side next to his skin, throwing it over his shoulders, from whence it hangs down to his ancles. 1899G. Russell Hist. Old Durban ix. 187 Cast-off articles of European attire, known to the Natives as ‘Ingouboos’. |