Citations:couscous

English citations of couscous

Noun: a pasta of North African origin

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Sir Richard Francis Burton (1857) Personal narrative of a pilgrimage to el Medinah and Meccah, Volume 1‎^[1] (travel), page 193 of 418: “A few Maghrabis had ventured on shore, — the Rais having terrified the others by threatening them with those "bogles," the Bedouins — they offered us Kus-kusu* in exchange for a little fish.... *One of the numerous species of what the Italians generally call "Pasta."”