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Afro
1[ af-roh ]
noun
- a hairstyle originating with Black people, in which naturally curly or frizzy hair is cut into a full, bushy shape all over the head.
adjective
- of or relating to African Americans or to Black traditions, culture, etc.:
Afro societies.
Afro-
2- a combining form of Africa:
Afro-American; Afro-Asiatic.
Afro-
1combining_form
- indicating Africa or African
Afro-Asiatic
Afro
2/ ˈæfrəʊ /
noun
- a hairstyle in which the hair is shaped into a wide frizzy bush
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Example Sentences
Erdoğan’s Turkey has begun to call itself an Afro-Eurasian state.
I was a dorky Indo-English kid with a South Asian afro, and he was the all-American type, on the baseball team, et cetera.
Tarantino still had his heart set on the Afro, but then Jackson stepped in.
They saw him in his 30s, sporting a huge Afro and smoking a big cigar on The Dick Cavett Show.
Equally incisive were Danny Welbeck and Daniel Sturridge, and the three young Afro-Englishmen electrified the game.
During the ride, Jai Johany plays lacy Afro jazz on a cassette machine, frowning, saying nothing.
Dolores could not understand their low conversation in English—and Afro-Americanese!
Many other eminent men have shared the same opinion, and not a few prominent leaders among the Afro-American people.
Graveyard rabbits, when indubitably known to be such, decorate no Afro-American skillet.
The evolution of the Afro-American soldier was the work of a short period and suffered many interruptions.
An Afro-Asian with skin like dark honey and smooth, pleasant, rather flat features.
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