bosal

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A type of noseband used on a horse.
  2. Alternative form of bozal or bossale (slave born in Africa and recently brought to a colony). alt-of,alternative,uncommon
    — At about the same time Christian Georg Andreas Oldendorp, a Moravian missionary in the Danish West Indies, recorded that some Kongos on the island performed "a certain type of baptism on the bosals [recently arrived slaves] who desire it."

词形变化

bosals plural

词源

From Spanish bosal, variant of bozal (“noseband; slave”). (The sense "noseband" is specifically via Mexican Spanish and was originally found in the Southwestern US.) Doublet of bozal and bossale.
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