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
Beyond the reviewing stand the troopers halted, faced to the north, where 100 miles away lay the town of 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 Blanc, Dr. Henri
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