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- noun Plural form of
tukul .
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Examples
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The group said that "roughly two-thirds of those buildings appear to be consistent with civilian residential structures, known as tukuls."
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"tukuls," an old woman called Duong Duong has collapsed.
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A few tents have been set up near the remains of burnt huts, known as tukuls.
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"Families continue to lack proper shelter and consistently resort to using any material -- mostly plastic bags and rags -- to patch up their tukuls -- flimsy, dome-shaped shelters," the UNHCR said.
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Mike Fay pilots his four-seater Cessna down a short, dusty runway in Mabior, southern Sudan, and up over a landscape of cattle and tukuls, traditional huts that look like giant Hershey's Kisses.
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The headman's house was the finest in the village, not one of the circular tukuls, but a square brick building with an iron roof.
The Seventh Scroll Smith, Wilbur 1995
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The huts in the villages were circular walled tukuls, surrounded by plantations of eucalyptus and spiky-headed sisal.
The Seventh Scroll Smith, Wilbur 1995
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The rounded walls of the old tukuls built with mud and wattle contrasted with the rectangular shapes and geometrical planes of the brick built multi-storeyed buildings, the blocks of flats and the villas of the affluent, the government buildings and the grandiose, flag-bedecked headquarters of the Organization of African Unity.
The Seventh Scroll Smith, Wilbur 1995
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"No displaced populations were observed… burnt tukuls thatch huts in several villages were reported."
BBC News - Home 2011
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"No displaced populations were observed… burnt tukuls thatch huts in several villages were reported."
BBC News - Home 2011
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