Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A long, loose-fitting African garment.
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- noun A
flowing wide-sleevedrobe worn by men in much ofWest Africa , and to a lesser extent inNorth Africa . - noun Any of various
passerine birds of thegenus Laniarius .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The experience of wearing the boubou is another story all its own.
The North, Part II - Christmas in Garoua Tim Hartman - Cameroon 2009
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The experience of wearing the boubou is another story all its own.
Archive 2009-01-01 Tim Hartman - Cameroon 2009
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Resplendent in a purple-and-white loose-fitting gown known as a boubou, the young woman now weighs 68 kilos (150 pounds) compared to only 45 kilos when she started the treatments.
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Wednesday in the small Senegalese village of Dal Diam, where he was given a traditional robe known as a boubou to wear, as if to justify the nickname the daily Le Soleil had given him that morning: "Clinton the African."
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Women and children danced in streets and teenage boys climbed roofs and trees to get a glimpse of Beye, dressed in the full-length flowing cotton "boubou" common in his native Mali.
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The Ethiopian boubou was formerly classified into a species complex as a subspecies along with five other birds that look very similar, but most of which are apparently are not that closely related.
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Ethiopian boubou, Laniarius aethiopicus aethiopicus, also known as the boubou shrike, tropical boubou or the bell shrike, photographed at the Ghion Hotel in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Africa.
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Response: This is an adult Ethiopian boubou, Laniarius aethiopicus, a member of the bushshrike family, Malaconotidae.
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Me: Hey Ibrahim, can I do bat wings with your boubou??!!
Archive 2009-09-01 Kate Fleurange 2009
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The men are decked out in their best boubous, complete with the gondora, a huge sail of fabric they loop over their shoulders on top of the boubou.
Archive 2009-09-01 Kate Fleurange 2009
reesetee commented on the word boubou
Also called Bell Shrike, the Tropical Boubou is a bird endemic to Africa.
August 21, 2007