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calabar

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What does calabar mean?

proper noun

  1. The largest city and state capital of Cross River State, Nigeria.
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In Old Calabar, men who already possess several wives take to their bosom and kiss, as their new wife, babes two or three weeks old.
Alexander Francis ChamberlainThe Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-DayProject Gutenberg ebook #7966