Definitions
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- noun A
sash (decorative length of cloth) worn in parts ofAfrica .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Dressed in a torn "shuka" (Masai women's sari-like dress), she explains how she once wandered into a school on her way to church to see what it was like.
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All you needed was something to wrap around you to keep the cold out, which is why we had the shuka -- the cloth was always on top of the leather loincloth, she said.
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All you needed was something to wrap around you to keep the cold out, which is why we had the shuka -- the cloth was always on top of the leather loincloth, she said.
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All you needed was something to wrap around you to keep the cold out, which is why we had the shuka -- the cloth was always on top of the leather loincloth, she said.
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Saturday morning we had shak shuka for breakfast with my parents and then did a bunch of shopping.
Deliciously Domestic Days girliejones 2010
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Now Mama put her hands under her shuka and retied the strings of the money purse around her waist; sleep and alcohol had swung it out of place.
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Saturday morning we had shak shuka for breakfast with my parents and then did a bunch of shopping.
Deliciously Domestic Days girliejones 2010
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There, a Maasai servant, shivering in a red plaid shuka, led me up a stone path lit with foot lanterns (the occasional frog hopping out of our way), to a private cabin with an enormous canopied bed and an open view of the hills and plains in the distance.
Karin Badt: From Devils to Zebras: Riccardo Orizio's Safari in Kenya 2009
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She pushed the money under her shuka; the zip of the purse released two crisp farts.
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Now Mama put her hands under her shuka and retied the strings of the money purse around her waist; sleep and alcohol had swung it out of place.
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