cangue

British  

/ kæŋ /

noun

1. (formerly in China) a large wooden collar worn by petty criminals as a punishment

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Etymology

Origin of cangue

C18: from French, from Portuguese canga yoke

Example Sentences

Solomon illustrates this with a 19th Century photograph of two people suffering the cangue, or penal collar, in which their faces are framed for public censure.

From Time Magazine Archive

And whenever Hersey needs an idea and can't find one�it happens all the time�he uses a big word instead: cangue, coffle, fulvous, hame, jingal, liripipe, m�tayer, panyar, purlin, psora, shroff, sycee.*

From Time Magazine Archive

Here I saw for the first time in my life a man carrying a cangue, and a horrible, sickening feeling seized me as I tramped through the densely-packed street and watched the poor fellow.

From Across China on Foot by Dingle, Edwin John

As in the English pillory, the name of the man and the nature of his offence are inscribed on the cangue.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" by Various

That thing that looked like a tree box is what they call a cangue.

From Baseball Joe Around the World Pitching on a Grand Tour by Chadwick, Lester