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pagne
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Borrowed from French pagne. Doublet of pane and pannus.
noun pagnes
- A length of wax-print fabric made in West Africa, worn as a single wrap or made into other clothing, and serving as a form of currency. In Senegal the local cloth currency, pagne, made of tama, or strips, was increasingly supplemented by French imported indigo-dyed cloth from India called guinee . The guinee was used as currency in lower Senegal. In upper Senegal it became a larger unit equivalent to a number of pagnes. The exchange
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@misc{pagne_2026,
title = {pagne},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/pagne},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
