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Definition of Lunda

1. Noun. Puffins.

Definition of Lunda

1. Noun. the language of the BaLunda people of central Africa ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

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Literary usage of Lunda

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Comparative Grammar of the South African Bantu Language: Comprising Those by J. Torrend (1891)
"This however is much less perceptible in Carvalho's lunda Grammar and in Capello and Ivens' specimens of the same language. Traces of a tendency to the same ..."

2. The History of Mankind by Friedrich Ratzel (1898)
"... but unusually pretty designs were still frequently to be seen, the southern limit of which was touched by Buchner in the north of the lunda empire. ..."

3. The Cruise of the Marchesa to Kamschatka & New Guinea: with notices of by Francis Henry Hill Guillemard (1889)
"(lunda cirrhata.) the water not a single leaf was stirring,—not a sound was to be heard. Before us lay the peaks of dazzling snow, and it seemed as though ..."

4. The Land of the Midnight Sun: Summer and Winter Journeys Through Sweden by Paul Belloni Du Chaillu (1888)
"Alunda—lunda, Alo. Goes with his scythe light as a wind, Alo—Alunda, ... Alunda—lunda, Alo. Just he rode hia horses to pasture, Alo—Alunda, ..."

5. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1887)
"lunda.—Captain Carvalho, the leader of the recent Portuguese expedition into ... lunda, according to him, is quite a recent creation, reaching hardly back ..."

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