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  • noun Plural form of boma.

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Examples

  • And most people here live in clusters of grass huts called bomas (ph).

    In Parts Of Sudan, Life Hasn't Changed In Centuries 2010

  • But over the last few decades, some Maasai have left their traditional mud-and-wattle homesteads, known as bomas, and gravitated to more permanent settlements-on the borders of the reserve.

    innovations-report 2009

  • But over the last few decades, some Maasai have left their traditional mud-and-wattle homesteads, known as bomas, and gravitated to more permanent settlements-on the borders of the reserve.

    innovations-report 2009

  • Over the last few decades, many Maasai have left their traditional mud-and-wattle homesteads, known as bomas, and gravitated to more permanent settlements - a large number of which now crowd the "ranchlands" at the border of the reserve.

    BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition 2009

  • Dad had spent an exhilarating day with Ben and a group of game rangers, trying to trap wildebeests in temporary enclosures known as bomas, back in the days when Ben was stocking the game park at Rainbow’s End.

    Rainbow’s End Lauren St John 2007

  • Dad had spent an exhilarating day with Ben and a group of game rangers, trying to trap wildebeests in temporary enclosures known as bomas, back in the days when Ben was stocking the game park at Rainbow’s End.

    Rainbow’s End Lauren St John 2007

  • The lodge staff, mainly comprised of Zulu people from local tribes, possessed a genuine interest in all who visited their "home" and would readily engage in lengthy conversations with guests about their upbringing, families, life in the bush and the best tasting game meat to sample at nightly bomas.

    Maria Russo: A Rare Safari in South Africa (PHOTOS) Maria Russo 2010

  • The lodge staff, mainly comprised of Zulu people from local tribes, possessed a genuine interest in all who visited their "home" and would readily engage in lengthy conversations with guests about their upbringing, families, life in the bush and the best tasting game meat to sample at nightly bomas.

    Maria Russo: A Rare Safari in South Africa (PHOTOS) Maria Russo 2010

  • Its owner, Peter Clausen has just completed construction of bomas

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

  • He said that ODM was determined to deliver a new constitution within the first six months basing on the bomas draft.

    ODM Party Launches Manifesto 2007

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