Maasai

//ˈmɑːsaɪ// name, noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A member of an indigenous people in Kenya and Tanzania.

    "Another way tourists move beyond the pretour narrative during the tour stems from the sheer materiality of being there, engaging in the practice of the tour, enacting the itinerary, and moving through the site, be it a Maasai compound, a Balinese dance performance, a five-hundred-year-old castle in Ghana, or an 1830s Abraham Lincoln heritage site. To perform the site is to inscribe the pretour narrative within the body of the tourist."

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    An Eastern Nilotic language spoken in Southern Kenya and Northern Tanzania by the Maasai people.

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"The hungry lions were eagerly anticipating the arrival of the wildebeest on their annual migration to the green pastures of the Maasai Mara."

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