Luba
Americannoun
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Lubas,plural
Luba-
a member of any of various groups of agricultural and hunting people inhabiting the SE Democratic Republic of the Congo, some of whom are famous for their wood carvings.
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Also called Chiluba, Ciluba, Tshiluba. the Bantu language of the Luba, used as a lingua franca in the S Democratic Republic of the Congo.
noun
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a member of a Negroid people of Africa living chiefly in the S Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaïre)
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Also called: Tshiluba. the language of this people, belonging to the Bantu group of the Niger-Congo family
Example Sentences
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Bauer’s agent, Rachel Luba, participated in the interview.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 22, 2024
“Trevor Bauer categorically denies this woman’s unhinged allegations,” the player’s co-agents, Jon Fetterolf and Rachel Luba, said in a statement Wednesday.
From Washington Times • Jun. 14, 2023
Central to this show are lukasas, or memory boards, made by Congo’s Luba people.
From Washington Post • Mar. 3, 2023
Exquisite wooden objects displayed here include oblong shields from Australia and New Guinea, spiraling European walking sticks and a striated, black and white Luba Kifwebe mask from central Africa.
From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2023
Broodingly, he leaned down, gathered together on the car floor his crumpled papers, including the info on Luba Luft.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
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