The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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Cullors represents the first 12 Odù with cowries — some cast in polished gold — stitched onto 1950s “mud cloth” from Mali, bought at a flea market in Pasadena.
From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2023
She recounts that, as a currency, cowries “have circulated longer than any other single coin or paper money in history.”
From Washington Post ● Jul. 28, 2021
She was filling a pail with cowries and bleeding tooth.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
That night, I dreamt of Felicia in her bathing suit with her pail of cowries and bleeding tooth.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
She was a vision in cowries: they rattled from her wrists, were strung through her curled dreadlocks, and looped around her neck.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
