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Adowa

British  
/ ˈɑːdʊˌwɑː /

noun

  1. 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

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

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

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