Etymology

Canboulay

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Today it means: A former harvest festival of Trinidad and Tobago, a precursor to the modern Carnival. Full definition →

French cannes brulées
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  1. French · derived fromcannes brulées“burnt cane”
  2. English todayCanboulay

French cannes brulées (“burnt cane”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.