Kabyle weaving, Marabout reputation.
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Marabout
//ˈmaɹəbuːt//
Synonyms for "marabout" (16 found)
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Italian
2 entries- marabutto noun (holy man)
- marabutto noun (tomb)
Portuguese
2 entries- marabuto noun (holy man)
- marabuto noun (tomb)
Russian
1 entries- мурабит noun (holy man)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
one of their principal targets was the marabouts – or holy men and leaders of mystic orders – whom they accused both of corrupting the faith by their espousal of mysticism and of being the ‘domestic animals of colonialism’.
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Climbing one on his second day lost, Prosperi spotted a disturbance to the view. “I was convinced it was somebody’s home or a holy man’s shrine.” But the shrine, or marabout, was empty. The only holy man was in a sarcophagus.
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Wherever she went she had, if not the finest, at any rate the most showy gown in the room; her ornaments were the biggest; her hats, toques, berets, marabouts, and other fallals, always the most conspicuous.
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