cacimbo

or Ca·cim·bo

[ kuh-sim-boh ]

noun

, plural ca·cim·bos.

1. the dry, cool season in the Congo Basin that occurs from May to September: characterized by heavy morning fogs and mists.

Word History and Origins

Origin of cacimbo¹

First recorded in 1860–65; from Portuguese, said to be from Kimbundu, a Bantu language of northern Angola, used as a name for the season

Example Sentences

Presently, when the Cacimbo ends in stormy rains and horrid rollers, its increased volume and impetus will burst the sand-strip which confines it, and the washed-away material will recruit the terrible bar.

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With thirty or forty black rowers, probably Cabinda men, Maxwell advised navigating the river about May, when the Cacimbo or dry season begins; and with arms, provisions, and merchandize he expected to reach the sources in six weeks.

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The vegetation was feeling the effect of the Cacimbo; most of the perennials were in seed, and the annuals were nearly dried up.

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The Cacimbo season corresponded with the Harmattan north of the Line; still, grey mornings, and covered, rainless noons, so distasteful to the Expedition, which complained that, from four to five days together, it could not obtain an altitude.

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Walker also ascended the Nkomo for some thirty miles, and found it still a large bed with two fathoms of water in the Cacimbo or "Middle dries."

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