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Dogon

[ doh-gon ]

noun

, plural Do·gons, (especially collectively) Do·gon
  1. a member of a group of Indigenous people of the mountains of central Mali.
  2. the Gur language of the Dogon.


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Example Sentences

He was a small man, clad only in a loincloth, and could well have been a Dogon himself.

But who in all the Dogon had ever witnessed such a juju man?

He left the device on and set it to one side, then yawned and settled himself to the rug-covered ground, crosslegged, Dogon style.

Shortly afterwards while passing Mr. Word old Ike whispered and said: "Dogon me if dat yankee don't surprise de natives!"

The ten villages of the Dogon are perched on the rim of the Falaise de Bandiagara.

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