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
Two scrappy middleweights now in training for the Battle of the Decade are Ethiopia, the Champion who won at Adowa in 1896, and Italy, the Challenger now set for a spectacular comeback.
From Time Magazine Archive
After the Adowa victory, Taitou rode between the lines of the conquered Italians, dispensing gifts, food and money.
From Time Magazine Archive
Adowa was not originally the capital of Tigr�.
From Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century by Benett, Léon
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