adire
Americanadjective
noun
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a type of cloth common in Nigeria, having colored patterns produced by resist dyeing.
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the technique involved in producing this cloth.
Example Sentences
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It’s long been part of the arts scene in Japan, through shibori, as well as in Nigeria, in adire.
From New York Times • Nov. 1, 2022
The blue hue, she said, was inspired by adire, the Yoruba technique for indigo textile dyeing.
From New York Times • Jul. 2, 2021
She found a Nigerian woman believed to be the last person using the traditional handwork process of making adire, a fabric with an indigo-dye pattern.
From New York Times • Nov. 14, 2012
The same translatour when he came to these words: Insignem pietate virum tot voluere casus tot adire labores compulit.
From The Arte of English Poesie by Puttenham, George
Compare as well Anth Lat 415 39-40 'spes Magnum profugum toto discurrere in orbe / iusserat et pueri regis adire pedes'; the distich follows a description of the hardships undergone by Marius.
From The Last Poems of Ovid by Akrigg, Mark Bear
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