And they were served splendidly with chickens and capons, pheasant, rice and couscous, and many other dishes and very fine wines.
"The White Knight: Tirant lo Blanc"
Joanot Martorell and Marti Johan d'Galba
Farther along ajoupas begin to line the way,- the dwellings of the field hands,-tiny cottages built with trunks of the arborescent fern or with stems of bamboo, and thatched with cane-straw: each in a little garden planted with bananas, yams, couscous, camanioc, choux-caraibes, or other things,-and hedged about with roseaux d'Inde and various flowering shrubs.
"Two Years in the French West Indies"
Lafcadio Hearn
He dances the mazurka as well as anyone, and makes couscous better than anyone.
"Letters from my Windmill"
Alphonse Daudet