Crossword-Solution: KOUS 4 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 8

The book has been read as a collection of essays and stories and dialogues only pulled together by the binder's tapes; as otherwise disjointed, fragmentary, _décousue_, a "piebald monstrous book," a sort of _kous-kous_, made out of the odds and ends of a scribbler's note-book.

This makes a very good dish, and thus prepared resembles "_Kous-kous_." The grain is sometimes made into puddings, with the usual condiments, and eaten either hot or cold, with milk.

The native cafés were crowded with dark men smoking chibouques, eating kous-kous, playing dominoes, or sipping absinthe and golden liqueurs which, fortunately not having been invented in the Prophet's time, had not been forbidden by him.

The women worked silently, humbly, though they would have been chattering if the great Sidi stranger had not been there; but two or three little children in orange and scarlet rags played giggling among the rubbish outside the tent--a broken bassour-frame, or palanquin, waiting to be mended; date boxes, baskets, and wooden plates; old kous-kous bowls, bundles of alfa grass, chicken feathers, and an infant goat with its mother.

Some of the Agha's black Soudanese servants had made kous-kous of semolina with a little mutton and a great many red peppers.