Shilluk
noun
a member of a Nilotic people of Sudan.
Shilluks
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pluralof Shilluk.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The stately Shilluks still spear lion and crocodile, still stand for hours, cranelike, on one foot.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the equatorial South, on the left bank of the White Nile, the King of the Shilluks sat under a mango tree, wearing a white sash and stroking his tufted beard.
From Time Magazine Archive
A bodyguard of towering Shilluks, their hair gummed with mud and cattle dung into rampant cockscombs a foot tall, gathered around Anei Kur.
From Time Magazine Archive
So the Shilluks cast their ballots at random.
From Time Magazine Archive
In 1890 the Shilluks in the neighbourhood of Fashoda rose against the khalifa, and the dervish amir of Gallabat, Zeki Tumal, was engaged for two years in suppressing the rebellion.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" by Various
