bamboula

plural bamboulas

1. A drum made from giant bamboo.
2. A dance accompanied by such drums.

   At the great bamboulas and fêtes the gourou is much used.

   1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 107

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   The British colonies did not permit these dances, so the calinda and the bamboula did not flourish in the plantation societies of Virginia and Carolina.

   2008, Ned Sublette, The World That Made New Orleans, Lawrence Hill Books, published 2009, page 74