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  • adjective Of or pertaining to the Xhosa.

Etymologies

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Xhosa +‎ -an

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Examples

  • Due to the mystic's promise, the Xhosan army was ordered into harm's way and engaged the British colonial army in a rare pitched battle.

    Larry Beinhart: The God Series, Part III -- Belief & False Beliefs 2009

  • The British, lined-up in formation, opened a withering fire with their muskets and artillery and decimated the Xhosan ranks, led personally by Nxele.

    Larry Beinhart: The God Series, Part III -- Belief & False Beliefs 2009

  • The Xhosan prophet, Nxele, had promised the Xhosan king, the Ndlambe, the ability to turn white men's bullets to water.

    Larry Beinhart: The God Series, Part III -- Belief & False Beliefs 2009

  • In April 1819, the British Colony on the Cape, Grahamstown, was menaced by a large Xhosan army.

    Larry Beinhart: The God Series, Part III -- Belief & False Beliefs 2009

  • Yet, suppose, for example, that a South African of mostly Dutch ancestry and a South African of mostly Xhosan ancestry share certain heritable physical characteristics.

    Intersections Between Analytic and Continental Feminism Warnke, Georgia 2008

  • 'De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da': Is this not the identical cadence and thrust of "di-ree-ree-ree di-ra-ra-ra" chanted by Xhosan witchdoctors to voice their frustrations at the inadequacies of spoken language?

    Zenyatta Mondatta 1980

  • I ran back to the phonogram and replayed the record, and there they were: the DE DO DO DO number's structure is precisely the same as that of an ancient Xhosan nursery rhyme, with a philosophical twist stolen from Gertrude Stein ( "A rose is a rose ...") or perhaps Dylan Thomas or Allen Ginsberg.

    Zenyatta Mondatta 1980

  • Prior to demonstrating her beautiful singing voice (in Xhosan too) she mentioned her work in promoting wine to the rising black middle class.

    thecookscottage 2009

  • I heard the next Jason Statham movie is going to have the audio from a Xhosan Madsen poetry reading in its next movie trailer because it’s getting too expensive to use "Click Click Boom" all the time.

    THE POETRY OF MICHAEL MADSEN 2008

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