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cangues

cangues is the plural of cangue.

Meaning of cangue

Noun

cangue (plural cangues)

  1. A heavy wooden collar or yoke borne on the shoulders and enclosing the neck and arms, formerly used in East Asia to punish thieves and other criminals.

Questions about cangues

What is cangues the plural of?
Cangues is the plural of cangue.

Words near cangues in the dictionary

  1. cango
  2. cangos
  3. cangrelor
  4. cangs
  5. cangue
  6. cangues
  7. Cangxi
  8. Cangzhou
  9. Canham
  10. Canhameira
  11. Canhams

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cangues (page history and authors); cangue (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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