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- proper noun A river in southern
Africa , which has its source inZambia and flows into theIndian Ocean .
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Examples
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And don't even mention the New Zealanders - when typically dark Kiwi label Zambesi introduced bright orange to its spring-summer collection at Fashion Week earlier this year, its loyal followers couldn't help wondering if their beloved label was finally crossing over to the light side.
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Like the sister act label Zambesi which showed at the same venue last night, Nom*D's Margi Robertson knows how to play to her strengths after a long and distinguished career as the darkhorse from Dunedin.
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And don't even mention the New Zealanders - when typically dark Kiwi label Zambesi introduced bright orange to its spring-summer collection at Fashion Week earlier this year, its loyal followers couldn't help wondering if their beloved label was finally crossing over to the light side.
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Of the chiefs who escaped, he said, “They love Mosilikatse, let them live with him: the Zambesi is my line of defense;” and men were placed all along it as sentinels.
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Tette stands on a succession of low sandstone ridges on the right bank of the Zambesi, which is here nearly a thousand yards wide (960 yards).
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004
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The bridge across the Zambesi is a fit mate in audacity to the falls themselves.
An African Adventure Isaac Frederick Marcosson 1918
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All the east coast north of the Zambesi will be your battle-ground.
Greenmantle John Buchan 1907
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Before we incorporate these new recruits on the muster-roll of Dr. Livingstone's servants, it seems right to point to five names which alone represented at this time the list of his original followers; these were Susi, Chuma, and Amoda, who joined him in 1864 on the Zambesi, that is eight years previously, and Mabruki and Gardner,
The Last Journals of David Livingstone from 1865 to His Death Ed 1874
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The inhabitants of the north side of the Zambesi are the Batonga; those on the south bank the Banyai.
Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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Tette stands on a succession of low sandstone ridges on the right bank of the Zambesi, which is here nearly a thousand yards wide (960 yards).
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries And of the Discovery of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864 David Livingstone 1843
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