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bosal en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /boʊˈsæl/

Etymology

From Spanish bosal, variant of bozal (“noseband; slave”). (The sense "noseband" is specifically via Mexican Spanish and was originally found in the Southwestern US.) Doublet of bozal and bossale.

Meanings

1. A type of noseband used on a horse.
2. (alt-of, alternative, uncommon) Alternative form of bozal or bossale (slave born in Africa and recently brought to a colony).
   alt of bozal or bossale
   • At about the same time Christian Georg Andreas Oldendorp, a Moravian missionary in the Danish West Indies, recorded that some Kongos on the island performed "a certain type of baptism on the bosals [recently arrived slaves] who desire it." 2009, Bernard Bailyn, Patricia L Denault, Soundings in Atlantic History, page 108:

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