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Definition of Cangues

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 Cangues from wikipedia

- forcing the cangue to slowly strangle him. Historically cangues were used in rituals of penance in Chinese folk religion. These cangues either resembled...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Dutch word for pillory, schandpaal, literally meaning "pole of shame". Cangue, board around the head Judicial corporal punishment Jougs, metal collar...
- Covadonga) is a Catholic church located in Covadonga/Cuadonga, Cangas de Onís/Cangues d'Onís, Asturias, Spain, that was designated as a basilica on September...
- Birch rod Boats Branding iron Brazen bull Breaking wheel Breast ripper Cangue Castor oil Catapelta[citation needed] Choke pear Coffin Crucifix Ducking...
- (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...
- Ribadedeva, Peñamellera Baxa, Peñamellera Alta, Cabrales, Llanes, Onís, Cangues d'Onís, Ribesella, Amieva, Parres, Caravia, Colunga, Piloña, Ponga 53,203...