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‖ pombe|ˈpɒmbeɪ|
[Swahili pombe.]
An intoxicating drink made by fermentation from many kinds of grain and some fruits in Central and East Africa. Also attrib. and Comb.
1857R. F. Burton Centr. Afr. (1860) I. iii. 95 Grain is so abundant that the inhabitants [of Zungomero] exist almost entirely upon the intoxicating pombe, or holcus-beer. 1866Livingstone Last Jrnls. v. (1873) I. 117 The chief brought a huge basket of pombe. 1878H. M. Stanley Dark Cont. I. vii. 151 The great jar of froth-topped pombé is then brought up. 1935H. Thurnwald in R. C. Thurnwald Black & White in E. Afr. iv. 158 The brewing of beer (pombe) is not done by women everywhere. It is a complicated process requiring time and performed especially for feasts. 1952Chambers's Jrnl. May 278/1 The local fermented beverage will be flowing freely—be it coconut pombe, or barley talla, or honey tej, depending on where in Africa the ceremony is taking place. 1966C. Sweeney Scurrying Bush v. 67 The local beer, called pombe, and made, in this case, from sorghum grain. 1969Tanzania Notes & Rec. July 26 In 1947 women pombe sellers..brought their case before Kimalando... He saw no justification for mounting a patrol in the African pombe markets. 1977D. Beaty Excellency iv. 54 A big black policeman with breath that smelled strongly of banana pombe. 1978J. Updike Coup (1979) v. 213 An entire American boom town, with..pombe-dispensing saloons. |