Definition of "quipos" []

• Plural form of quipo. (noun)

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• "Guanches also contained earthenware, wooden vases, triangular seals of baked clay, and a great number of small discs of the same material, strung together like chaplets, which may have been used by this extinct race for the same purposes as the "quipos" of the Peruvians."
• "You can talk with the quipos, and tell them that unless they give us our freedom and let us go in safety they'll have a dead king."
• "The hand of the Child of the Sun passed slowly up and down the frame of quipos, betraying a commendable reluctance."