Coudée

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The coudée was a French measure of length. The measure of length on the human body ranged from the elbow to the fingertips.

In Africa the term Ohra was common for this cubit .

  • 1 Ohra = 0.571 meters

See also

literature

  • Herder: Kleines Konversations-Lexikon (5 volumes). Volume 2, Herder'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Freiburg (Breisgau) 1854, p. 224.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Friedrich Erdmann Petri: Handbook of foreign words in German written and colloquial language, for understanding and avoiding those, more or less dispensable interferences, with an inserted name interpreter and a list of foreign word abbreviations, along with the signs of the art of cutting and astronomy: Arnoldische Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1863. p. 209.
  2. ↑ Collection of the best and latest travelogues with a detailed excerpt. Volume 22, Verlag August Mylius, Berlin 1782, p. 445. https://books.google.de/books?id=zQtAAAAAcAAJ&dq=dhra&hl=de&pg=PA445#v=onepage&q=dhra&f=false
  3. ^ Journal of Ethnology. Volume 40, Limbach Verlag, 1908, p. 331.