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mamboes

mamboes is the plural of mambo.

Meaning of mambo

Noun

mambo (countable and uncountable, plural mambos or mamboes)

  1. A voodoo priestess (in Haiti)
    • The mambo next presented a container of water to the cardinal points, then poured libations to the centerpost of the peristyle, the axis along which the spirits were to enter.1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, page 47
  2. A Latin-American musical genre, adapted from rumba, originating from Cuba in the 1940s, or a dance or rhythm of this genre.

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Questions about mamboes

What is mamboes the plural of?
Mamboes is the plural of mambo.

Words near mamboes in the dictionary

  1. Mambiloid
  2. Mamble
  3. mambo
  4. mambo sauce
  5. mamboed
  6. mamboes
  7. Mambog
  8. Mambog-Mandama
  9. mamboing
  10. Mambookie
  11. Mambookies

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