pagne

Examples of pagne in a sentence

• In Senegal the local cloth currency, pagne, made of tama, or strips, was increasingly supplemented by French imported indigo-dyed cloth from India called guinee .1997, Paul Tiyambe Zeleza, A Modern Economic History of Africa: The nineteenth century, →ISBN, page 286:
• If a woman wears her sister's pagne [cloth] to go and have sexual intercourse with a man, she has committed afodegbe.1998, Judy Rosenthal, Possession, Ecstasy, and Law in Ewe Voodoo, →ISBN, page 204:
• When young girls are first learning how to wear a pagne, sometimes we sew straps onto the corners so the pagne can be tied and doesn't fall down if they don't wrap it right.2011, Kris Holloway, Monique and the Mango Rains, →ISBN:
• Pagne is part of the transfer of wealth from a prospective groom to his intended wife prior to marriage or the inheritance a woman leaves for her daughters.2016, Nina Sylvanus, Patterns in Circulation: Cloth, Gender, and Materiality in West Africa, →ISBN, page 2:

Forms of pagne

Origin of pagne

Borrowed from French pagne. Doublet of pane and pannus.

Questions about pagne

What does pagne mean?

Pagne means a length of wax-print fabric made in West Africa, worn as a single wrap or made into other clothing, and serving as a form of currency.

How do you use pagne in a sentence?

In Senegal the local cloth currency, pagne, made of tama, or strips, was increasingly supplemented by French imported indigo-dyed cloth from India called guinee .

What part of speech is pagne?

Pagne is a noun.

What is the plural of pagne?

The plural of pagne is pagnes.