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
Through the mouths of the cowries the gods speak to him in clear, unambiguous voices.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
Barnacles, cowries, thirteen lumps of quartz gritty with sand.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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
