Makonde
Americannoun
plural
Makondes,plural
Makonde-
a member of a people living in northeastern Mozambique and southeastern Tanzania, renowned as woodcarvers.
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the Bantu language of the Makonde people.
Example Sentences
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They surround the centerpiece of her installation, called “Mother Mound,” which fills a courtyard — a hill whose shape echoes Makonde and Congolese belly masks and suggests a woman’s pregnant body.
From New York Times • Feb. 8, 2023
Boritt said Richardson Jackson invited him to examine the Makonde sculpture she and her husband own to give him a sense of what she envisioned.
From Washington Post • Jan. 24, 2023
So, I wanted the piano to look like a Makonde statue and Mama’s face had to be the most prominent, and then the little boy Charles.
From New York Times • Oct. 7, 2022
The disease's name means "that which bends up" in the Makonde language in East Africa, since the afflicted are often contorted from joint pains.
From Scientific American • Jun. 4, 2012
Cretaceous marls and limestones appear at intervals, extending in places to the edge of the upper plateau, and are extensively developed on the Makonde plateau.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" by Various
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