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  • noun second-hand clothing, especially that provided by aid agencies and subsequently sold

Etymologies

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Swahili

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Examples

  • But despite TBS's efforts to control quality of imported used clothes, known as mitumba, the prohibited textile products are still being sold by retailers.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2004

  • HEEEHHEHHEHHAHAHAHH garden state is almost out on BETA...hahahahhahahahahhahahahahahahahhahahaha soooreeeee and as for clothes being sold at third world prices do you per chancee mean mitumba...and dont act like you dont know!

    I talked to God in a phonebox on my way home Minzo 2005

  • "By this statement, it is reiterated that all retailers of mitumba garments are prohibited from selling the garments," the statement said.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2004

  • At some point, he also shined shoes, sold mitumba clothes washed cars, sold scrap metal and hawked groundnuts at the Shauri Moyo estate.

    The Standard | Headlines 2009

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