Adowa
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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After paparazzi photographed the models Adowa Aboah and Cara Delevingne wearing it, knockoffs of the T-shirt proliferated.
From New York Times • Aug. 4, 2018
For him, the greatest revelation came in the contrast between the gestural Adowa of Anglophone Ghana and the ecstatic Sabar of Francophone Senegal.
From New York Times • May 21, 2010
In fact, the war began almost 40 years earlier, when an imperial army of 16,000 Italians engaged the forces of the Ethiopian Emperor Men-elik II at the Battle of Adowa and suffered a humiliating defeat.
From Time Magazine Archive
Passing Ethiopia he thought of Conrad, who wrote a chapter of Almayer's Folly in a steamer named Adowa.
From Time Magazine Archive
As a whole the army's reputation had been injured by the Adowa disaster and by the slowness of the campaign in Tripoli.
From The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of 8) History of the European War from Official Sources by Reynolds, Francis J. (Francis Joseph)
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