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- noun Plural form of
boubou .
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Examples
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In between terrorizing my friends in boubous, I’m fond of contemplating my hands.
Archive 2009-09-01 Kate Fleurange 2009
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Lanarius are carnivorous songbirds commonly known as boubous or gonoleks.
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While Bamenda seemed bustling, cosmopolitan, and relatively westernized, in the rural Northwest near the border, I re-found a comfortable sign from home in the Extreme North: boubous (aka: the man-dress)!
Archive 2009-04-01 Kate Fleurange 2009
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The men are decked out in their best boubous, complete with the gondora, a huge sail of fabric they loop over their shoulders on top of the boubou.
Archive 2009-09-01 Kate Fleurange 2009
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While the Muslims were dressed in their best pastel-colored boubous on men, and full pagne on women, the Christians were comfortably clad in t-shirts, pants, occasional sprinklings of pagne.
Archive 2009-09-01 Kate Fleurange 2009
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On most days men wait out the hottest part of the day, lounging beneath shade trees in swirling, dress-like boubous and faded Muslim caps.
Spellbound Karen Palmer 2010
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Like Halloween, but everyone wears the same costume: boubous.
Happy End of Ramadan! Kate Fleurange 2008
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The boubous came in a plethora of blues and whites, a few seafoam greens, salmon, even a couple of bright turquoise and one lucky dude in hot pink.
Happy End of Ramadan! Kate Fleurange 2008
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On most days men wait out the hottest part of the day, lounging beneath shade trees in swirling, dress-like boubous and faded Muslim caps.
Spellbound Karen Palmer 2010
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On most days men wait out the hottest part of the day, lounging beneath shade trees in swirling, dress-like boubous and faded Muslim caps.
Spellbound Karen Palmer 2010
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