Adowa
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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After paparazzi photographed the models Adowa Aboah and Cara Delevingne wearing it, knockoffs of the T-shirt proliferated.
From New York Times • Aug. 4, 2018
For him, the greatest revelation came in the contrast between the gestural Adowa of Anglophone Ghana and the ecstatic Sabar of Francophone Senegal.
From New York Times • May 21, 2010
Every road and trail from Adowa and Adigrat up to the line was blocked with trucks and caissons axle-deep in mud.
From Time Magazine Archive
General Haptemikael himself is a veteran of Adowa.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Dervishes threatened Kassala as soon as the news of Adowa reached them, and indeed there were signs of increased activity in Omdurman itself.
From The River War An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan by Churchill, Winston
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