Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A brightly patterned, handwoven ceremonial cloth of the Ashanti.
- noun A durable machine-woven fabric similar to this fabric, prominently featured in Afrocentric fashion.
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- noun A type of
fabric made of interwoven clothstrips , native to the country ofGhana .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Sunday service can feature brilliantined choirboys, or an organist, or dancing women in kente cloth.
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Sunday service can feature brilliantined choirboys, or an organist, or dancing women in kente cloth.
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Sunday service can feature brilliantined choirboys, or an organist, or dancing women in kente cloth.
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A folk tale-like picture book of the first rank about a selfish young man who learns to compromise after leaving his African village, illustrated in kente-cloth colors and patterns by an artist who has won the Kate Greenaway award.
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A folk tale-like picture book of the first rank about a selfish young man who learns to compromise after leaving his African village, illustrated in kente-cloth colors and patterns by an artist who has won the Kate Greenaway award.
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A folk tale-like picture book of the first rank about a selfish young man who learns to compromise after leaving his African village, illustrated in kente-cloth colors and patterns by an artist who has won the Kate Greenaway award.
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"We have the opportunity to jump-start our economy by paying our vendors today -- an immediate injection of billions into our economy," Quinn said in his 27-minute speech, during which he wore a sash known as a kente cloth to mark Black History Month.
unknown title 2011
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The brightly colored, geometrically patterned cloth called kente, made by the Asante peoples of Ghana and the Ewe people of Ghana and Togo is the best known of all African textiles, a symbol of African pride and a powerful cultural icon.
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Rawlings draped a hero's cloth, or "kente", over Clinton's shoulders.
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Catie sat in her makeshift bed, wrapped in kente cloth, looking far too much like the queen mother—with her short hair—than Seena could stomach at the moment.
Amaryllis in Blueberry Christina Meldrum 2011
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