Barotse
Britishnoun
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a member of a Negroid people of central Africa living chiefly in SW Zambia
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the language spoken by this people; Lozi
Example Sentences
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We object to this act," said the Barotse, "because it did not come to us through our Paramount Chief, or even through the resident commissioner.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Barotse leaders, it seemed, disliked federation, not because it brought too little freedom to their people, but because it might bring too much.
From Time Magazine Archive
His new attendants he named Zambesians, for there were only two Makololo men—the rest consisting of Barotse, Batoka, and other tribes.
From Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley by Kingston, William Henry Giles
The Barotse, being a tribe of boatmen, managed their canoes admirably.
From Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley by Kingston, William Henry Giles
The variety in type among the Mashona and the homogeneity of the Barotse would rather point to an opposite conclusion.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" by Various
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