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  • adjective From, pertaining, or relating to Rhodesia or its people or culture.
  • noun Someone from Rhodesia

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Examples

  • Growth of religious and cultural movements in Southern Rhodesian mining compounds, including Watchtower movement, called Kitawala, and Beni dance associations.

    f. Southern Africa 2001

  • "Rhodesian" - a loaded term referring to white Zimbabweans that held power before independence in 1980.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2003

  • The Caprivi had huge tracts of Baikea, also known as Rhodesian teak, prized for its very dense red hardwood.

    The Elephant's Secret Sense Caitlin O'Connell 2007

  • The Caprivi had huge tracts of Baikea, also known as Rhodesian teak, prized for its very dense red hardwood.

    The Elephant's Secret Sense Caitlin O'Connell 2007

  • The Caprivi had huge tracts of Baikea, also known as Rhodesian teak, prized for its very dense red hardwood.

    The Elephant's Secret Sense Caitlin O'Connell 2007

  • The Caprivi had huge tracts of Baikea, also known as Rhodesian teak, prized for its very dense red hardwood.

    The Elephant's Secret Sense Caitlin O'Connell 2007

  • All three subalterns knew that the Rhodesian was the only man on the spot who had a rifle ready, yet generously they forbore to give expression to their thoughts.

    Wilmshurst of the Frontier Force Ernest [Illustrator] Prater 1917

  • "Rhodesian" whites, the USA and the European Union, the MDC is not happy with the ZANU (PF) government, there is an indissoluble link amongst them and they all must be pursuing the same agenda.

    ANC Today 2008

  • They try to buttress this by suggesting that given that, like Britain, the revanchist "Rhodesian" whites, the USA and the European Union, the MDC is not happy with the ZANU (PF) government, there is an indissoluble link amongst them and they all must be pursuing the same agenda.

    ANC Today 2008

  • Smith and his "Rhodesian" system of government are constantly reviled by Mugabe as brutal and undemocratic, and he will no doubt resent the accusation that his administration is no better.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

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