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ashoebi

ashoebi noun: clothes made from the same fabric to be worn by several people during a festive occasion in Sierra Leone.

Noun

ashoebi (uncountable)

  1. Clothes made from the same fabric to be worn by several people during a festive occasion in Sierra Leone.
    • The women wore long uniform dresses or ashoebi of brown print; their hair was decorated with cowrie shells to complement the fancy masquerade.1987, John Wallace Nunley, Moving with the face of the devil: art and politics in urban West Africa

Questions about ashoebi

What does ashoebi mean?
Ashoebi means clothes made from the same fabric to be worn by several people during a festive occasion in Sierra Leone.
What part of speech is ashoebi?
Ashoebi is a noun.

Words near ashoebi in the dictionary

  1. ashobi
  2. ashobis
  3. Ashochimi
  4. Ashodian
  5. Ashodians
  6. ashoebi
  7. Ashok
  8. ashoka
  9. Ashokan
  10. Ashokan Prakrit
  11. ashokas

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