Definitions
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- adjective Of or relating to
Senegambia .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The first is Peace is everything by David Marantz (SIL), which looks at the Senegambian wordview and how it explains the daily religious-spiritual-magical practices that permeate all of life and perplex foreigners.
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Senegambian gulley may have been no more than the result of a granite eruption by Mount Pico on the Cape Verde island of Fogo; this volcano had erupted as recently as 1847 but since then had been considered extinct.
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The island of Gorée, off the Senegambian coast, became a staging area for Dutch trade in 159495.
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By the 16th century, Kaabu was the dominant power in the Senegambian region.
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The kingdom of Salum's strategic location on the Salum River near the Senegambian coast enabled it to profit from the nearby salt deposits and the European slave trade.
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Influenced by the earlier example of Nasir al-Din, Maalik Sy waged a holy war of his own in the Senegambian region.
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The great night arrived, and San Juan, dressed in its gala finery, wended its chattering way to the Senegambian séance.
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It is a cosmopolitan community, too -- as cosmopolitan as it can be and still retain its Senegambian motif.
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Ah, you should have seen Octavia's daughter, tired and little and dripping and frumpy, lift her chin and look through and through that impudent Senegambian!
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The word is either a corruption of "bandore" or "pandura" (_q. v._), an instrument of the guitar type, or is derived from "bania," the name of a similar primitive Senegambian instrument.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
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