kouskous

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Noun

kouskous (uncountable)

  1. Alternative spelling of couscous
    • 1899, Henry Theophilus Finck, Primitive Love and Love-Stories:
      Many of the young girls are compelled, by their mothers, to devour a great quantity of kouskous, and drink a large bowl of camel's milk every morning....
    • 1911, C. N. Williamson, A. M. Williamson, The Golden Silence:
      Afterwards came a kouskous of chicken and farina, which she ate with a large spoon whose bowl was of tortoiseshell, the handle of ivory tipped with coral.