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
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One of the buglers who sounded the Adowa retreat that was never heard was found in London last week in the person of Francis Pozzoli, then a young corporal, now a prosperous wholesale grocer.
From Time Magazine Archive
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From Massowah to Adowa the road rises gradually, and passes over the mountains which separate Tigr� from the shores of the Red Sea.
From Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century by Benett, Léon
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