Definition of "amadou" []

• A spongy, flammable substance prepared from bracket fungi, formerly used as a styptic and as tinder. (noun)

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• "In the corner behind the door, shining hob-nailed shoes stood in a row under the slab of the washstand, near a bottle of oil with a feather stuck in its mouth; a Matthieu Laensberg lay on the dusty mantelpiece amid gunflints, candle-ends, and bits of amadou."
• "With the amadou he lighted up, and after about a dozen whiffs his eyes closed, his pipe escaped from his fingers, and he fell asleep."
• "My uncle did not forget — a supply of tobacco, coarse grained powder, and amadou, nor a leathern belt in which he carried"