Meaning of bhang | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A preparation made from the leaves and flowers of the cannabis plant, traditionally consumed in food or drink, especially during Hindu festivals such as Holi.
   uncountable
2. Cannabis or its preparations generally.
   India, Kenya, Uganda, uncountable

Examples

“Almost from the outset of her arrival in the town, soft-muted music, the strange, heart-rending, mournful music of the East - suggestive of apes, and pearls, and bhang, and the colour blue - was to be heard, surging from the Nook in monotonous improvisation.”

“Stramonium seed, mixed with wine, produces, according to a seventeenth century erotologist, libidinous activity. The effects, the write asserts, are similar to those produced by bhang.”

“He rolled out from under Zelikman, who looked surprised as if by the turn his bhang dream had taken.”

“Government-approved bhang shops thrive next to sweet shops flaunting rows of local desserts inside brightly lit, glass-panelled counters.”

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