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Masai

Masai is the alternative spelling of Maasai.

Meaning of Maasai

Noun

Maasai (plural Maasai)

  1. A member of an indigenous people in Kenya and Tanzania.
    • Another way tourists move beyond the pretour narrative during the tour stems from the sheer materiality of being there, engaging in the practice of the tour, enacting the itinerary, and moving through the site, be it a Maasai compound, a Balinese dance performance, a five-hundred-year-old castle in...2005, Edward M. Bruner, Culture on Tour: Ethnographies of Travel, page 24

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Questions about Masai

What is Masai the alternative spelling of?
Masai is the alternative spelling of Maasai.

Words near Masai in the dictionary

  1. Masaguisi
  2. masahif
  3. Masahiro
  4. Masahisa
  5. Masahuat
  6. Masai
  7. masajid
  8. masak-masak
  9. Masaka
  10. masala
  11. masala chai

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