Adowa

American

[ad-uh-wah] / ˌæd əˈwɑ /

Or adowa

noun

a type of traditional, relatively sedate ceremonial dance of the Akan people of Ghana and other West African countries, featuring small steps and leg movements and curving movements of the arms and hands, typically accompanied by fast drumming.

Adowa British

/ ˈɑːdʊˌwɑː /

noun

a variant spelling of Aduwa

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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

The memory of Adowa poisoned relations between the two countries.

From Time Magazine Archive

Passing Ethiopia he thought of Conrad, who wrote a chapter of Almayer's Folly in a steamer named Adowa.

From Time Magazine Archive

In March, 1867, Theodore started for Kourata, the third town in importance in Abyssinia, and the greatest commercial centre after Gondar and Adowa.

From Narrative of Captivity in Abyssinia with Some Account of the Late Emperor the Late Emperor Theodore, His Country and People by Dr. Henri Blanc

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