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Cangue
Cangue Cangue (k[a^]ng), n. [Written also cang.] [F. cangue, fr. Pg. canga yoke.] A very broad and heavy wooden collar which certain offenders in China are compelled to wear as a punishment.

Meaning of Cangue from wikipedia

- A cangue (/kæŋ/ KANG), in Chinese referred to as a jia or tcha (Chinese: 枷) is a device that was used for public humiliation and corporal punishment in...
- The Golden Cangue (金鎖記) is a 1943 Chinese novella by Eileen Chang. The author's own English translation appeared in the anthology Modern Chinese Stories...
- Cangas de Onís (Asturian: Cangues d'Onís "valleys of Onís") is a muni****lity in the eastern part of the province and autonomous community of Asturias...
- (Qing Cheng Zhi Lian, 傾城之戀) and The Golden Cangue (1943). In her English translation of The Golden Cangue, Chang simplified English expressions and sentence...
- Dutch word for pillory, schandpaal, literally meaning "pole of shame". Cangue, board around the head Judicial corporal punishment Jougs, metal collar...
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- the horses and the people who helped to sell the horses would be put on cangue and sent to labor in a border military camp. In the salt mines, the penalty...
- Malacca, who had been accounted a Ming v****al; and, after placing them in cangues and keeping them for most of a year, ultimately executed 23 by lingchi...
- Jin Suo Ji (aka The Golden Cangue or The Golden Chain) is a 1950 Hong Kong film written by Eileen Chang and directed by Shu-Sun Chiu. The story is based...
- Salle des Martyrs at the Paris Foreign Missions Society. The ladder-like apparatus in the middle is the cangue that was worn by Pierre Borie in captivity....