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Mashona

American  
[muh-shon-uh, -shoh-nuh] / məˈʃɒn ə, -ˈʃoʊ nə /

noun

Mashonas plural
  1. Shona.


Mashona British  
/ məˈʃəʊnə /

noun

  1. another name for the Shona

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

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

The great tribal wars to the southeast between the Mashona and the fierce Matabele were only a distant rumbling.

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

And to-morrow thou shalt sit beside me, here in this great square, and witness the annual festival of the Mashona nation.

From Through Veld and Forest An African Story by Webb, Archibald

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