Barotse

British  

/ bəˈrɒtsɪ /

noun

1. a member of a Negroid people of central Africa living chiefly in SW Zambia

2. the language spoken by this people; Lozi

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Example Sentences

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

Only those few pioneers who knew the Barotse under the old conditions can fully realise what civilization and England owe to the co-operation of this high-minded Frenchman.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" by Various

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

These seem to have been the most recent immigrants from the south-east, and to exhibit certain affinities with the Barotse on the upper Zambezi.

From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg