Citations:couscous
English citations of couscous
Noun: a pasta of North African origin
[edit]| 1857 | |||||||
| ME « | 15th c. | 16th c. | 17th c. | 18th c. | 19th c. | 20th c. | 21st c. |
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."”