Fula
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a member of a pastoral nomadic people of W and central Africa, living chiefly in the sub-Sahara region from Senegal to N Cameroon: a racial mixture of light-skinned Berber peoples of the North and darker-skinned W Africans
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the language of this people; Fulani
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They built their villages on high ground, with cliffs for lookouts and caves to hide in, and for centuries battled the Fula, or Peuls, who make up about 25 percent of Senegal’s population.
From Washington Post ● May 7, 2021
Five strangers with nothing in common find themselves working together to save the people and Pokemon of Fula City.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 27, 2019
The school is a place of cacophonous hope for students from 41 nations: You hear Fula, Burmese, Arabic, Spanish, Thai, Tibetan, Tajik, Urdu, Russian, Karen and Wolof, not to mention Bengali, in its hallways.
From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2016
But tensions with his bitter opposition rivals, who mainly come from the Peul ethnic group - also known as the Fula - have not eased since the election.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2012
In the north there are some pastoral settlements of Fula.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" by Various
Similarly the Fulas of the Windward coast, who as strict Moslem will not drink fermented liquors, hold a cup of rum to be the sovereignest thing in the world for taenia.
From Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
Among the Fulas, boys who have been circumcised are a law unto themselves until the incision has healed.
From The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day by Chamberlain, Alexander F.
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