Matabele
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How to use Matabele in a sentence
As they advanced they saw evidences on every hand of the terrible Mantatees, and the still more terrible Matabele.
Robert Moffat | David J. DeaneAfter much persuasion, permission was given him to preach the Gospel to the Matabele people, a privilege hitherto always denied.
Robert Moffat | David J. DeaneAt Sechele's town the two portions of this latter division were united, and thence they journeyed onwards towards the Matabele.
Robert Moffat | David J. DeaneHe has lived, he tells me, eighteen years in South Africa and fought for us against the Matabele.
Servants of the Guns | Jeffery E. JefferyIn the fort they showed with pride some half a dozen Matabele prisoners they had captured in a fight.
The Matabele Campaign | R. S. S. Baden-Powell
British Dictionary definitions for Matabele
/ (ˌmætəˈbiːlɪ, -ˈbɛlɪ) /
plural -les or -le a member of a formerly warlike people of southern Africa, now living in Zimbabwe: driven out of the Transvaal by the Boers in 1837: Now known as: Ndebele
the language of this people, belonging to the Bantu group of the Niger-Congo family
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