Mashona
Americannoun
plural
Mashonas,plural
Mashonanoun
Example Sentences
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With ties to both the minority Matabele and majority Mashona tribes and a solid political organization all over Rhodesia, Nkomo seems well placed.
From Time Magazine Archive
Not since the Matabele and Mashona uprisings against Cecil Rhodes' white settlers in the 1890s had Rhodesian whites felt so threatened.
From Time Magazine Archive
Samuel Songo, a Mashona tribesman of Southern Rhodesia, has a left arm that is like a magnificent piece of ebony sculpture.
From Time Magazine Archive
The great tribal wars to the southeast between the Mashona and the fierce Matabele were only a distant rumbling.
From Time Magazine Archive
I took down a hunting-knife from a stand on the wall, and did the old Mashona trick of tossing it and catching it in my lips.
From The Thirty-Nine Steps by Buchan, John
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