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/kˈælɐbˌæʃ/
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- round gourd of the calabash tree
- bottle made from the dried shell of a bottle gourd
- a pipe for smoking; has a curved stem and a large bowl made from a calabash gourd
- tropical American evergreen that produces large round gourds
- Old World climbing plant with hard-shelled bottle-shaped gourds as fruits
How To Use calabash In A Sentence
- Paraguay tea, which they call matte, as I mentioned before, is always drunk twice a day: this is brought upon a large silver salver, with four legs raised upon it, to receive a little cup made out of a small calabash or gourd, and tipped with silver. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 17 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time
- The painting raises another question: how can native Hawaiians preserve ancient traditions within the calabash of ideas and cultures that is contemporary Hawaii?
- The calabash is the fruit from the national tree and it resembles a coconut from the outside, but smooth. Jounen Kweyol
- Having done this, she gave the sand and water a rotatory motion, so as to make a part of the sand and water fly over the brim of the calabash. The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805
- She receives wonderfully sympathetic support from a tight-knit cast of sidemen, and adds her own fiddle, organ and calabash textures. Times, Sunday Times
- “Bonderro” is a corruption of the Lusitanianized imbundeiro, the calabash, or adansonia (digitata?): the other baobab is called nkondo, probably the Aliconda and Elicandy of Battel and old travellers, who describe the water-tanks hollowed in its huge trunk, and the cloth made from the bark fibre. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
- The traditional kora, a stringed calabash instrument, symbolizes the singing poet tradition in the country.
- Some are large calabashes (a type of gourd) with leather drumheads and are played with the hands.
- They also have colorful gift shop filled with traditional arts and crafts, such as slate carvings, wood carvings, jipijapa baskets, calabash, Mopan Maya clothing, and jewelry. Archive 2006-11-01
- The Mayumbe near the coast paint calabashes, decorating them with hunting scenes and colorful geometric designs.
