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- adjective Alternative form of
Dahomeyan . - noun Alternative form of
Dahomeyan .
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Examples
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RADA Vodoun rite; a body of loa, songs, and dances of Dahomean origin.
The Serpent and the Rainbow Wade Davis 1985
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Vodou (from the Dahomean vodu, "spirit" or "deity") is a peaceable New World religion that marries elements of Catholicism with the rites and rituals of ancestral Africa.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Vodou (from the Dahomean vodu, "spirit" or "deity") is a peaceable New World religion that marries elements of Catholicism with the rites and rituals of ancestral Africa.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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It may perhaps have been a Dahomean blood pact; of course, neo-Pentecostal Christians regard all non-Christian religions negatively (with some exceptions made for Judaism), but the idea of a
Anorak News 2010
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