Archaic form of couscous.
> A pasta of North African origin made of crushed and steamed semolina.
Sir Richard Francis Burton (1857) Personal narrative of a pilgrimage to el Medinah and Meccah, Volume 1 (travel), page 193 of 418: âA few Maghrabis had ventured on shore, â the Rais having terrified the others by threatening them with those "bogles," the Bedouins â they offered us couscousou in exchange for a little fish.... *One of the numerous species of what the Italians generally call "Pasta."â
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Archaic form of couscous.
> A pasta of North African origin made of crushed and steamed semolina.
Sir Richard Francis Burton (1857) Personal narrative of a pilgrimage to el Medinah and Meccah, Volume 1 1 (travel), page 193 of 418: âA few Maghrabis had ventured on shore, â the Rais having terrified the others by threatening them with those "bogles," the Bedouins â they offered us couscousou in exchange for a little fish.... *One of the numerous species of what the Italians generally call "Pasta."â