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margosa
[ mahr-goh-suh ]
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of margosa1
1805–15; aphetic < Portuguese amargosa, feminine of amargoso bitter
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But this is now only done by children, the grown-up women putting the margosa twigs over a cloth wrapped round the loins.
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She was helping me with a Bengali primer, what time I could spare my gaze from the near-by parrots eating ripe margosa fruit.
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The devotees are bound to wear a garment made of fresh margosa twigs with their leaves.
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There is a widespread belief that gul bēl growing on a margosa tree is more efficacious as a medicine than that which is found on other kinds of trees.
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If a vow has been made on behalf of a sick cow, the animal is bathed in the river, clad in margosa leaves, and led round the temple.
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