Mozambique, noun
- Forms:
- Also Mosambique.
- Origin:
- See Mozambiquer.
obs.
Mozambiquer.
1819 G.M. Keith Voy. 37There are not such thick lips among the hottentots as among their neighbours the negroes the caffres and the Mozambiques.
1905 W.H. Tooke in Flint & Gilchrist Science in S. Afr. 88Many individuals of this group are favourably known as labourers in the Cape Colony, where they are included in the general term ‘Mozambiques,’ applied to all natives of Portuguese East Africa.
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