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garbanzo

gar·banzo

UK/ɡɑɹˈbɑnzoʊ/ uncommon

noun

1.

the seed of the chickpea plant

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Origin

From Spanish garbanzo, initially borrowed as garvance in the 17th c. and anglicized as calavance (“chickpea; any kind of bean or pulse”). The original garbanzo was re-established in the 19th c., primarily via American Spanish.

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