belemele ‘almond shelf’: a lattice shelf made of woven bamboo, hanging [...]

• • ‘almond shelf’: a lattice shelf made of woven bamboo, hanging high over the fireplace in the kitchen, used for storing canarium almonds (vongoro) while they dry
  • • Food

  • • Example 386:
      

      Li-bi vongoro li-kamai, li-loko i-vene ne belemele li-sabisi li-maliawo boso. Pon ra kokoro.

      They picked almonds and brought them home, poured them all up on the almond shelf; then they lit a fire underneath, to dry them up.

      Example URL

      https://doi.org/10.24397/pangloss-0003351#S107

    • Example 387:
      

      Mwalik' iape i-ven' i-la vongoro ne belemele i-abu i-vo.

      Her husband climbed to take some almonds down from the shelf, and began crushing them.

      Example URL

      https://doi.org/10.24397/pangloss-0003351#S5

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• See also:
  • aele lower limb: leg, foot