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  • adjective Of or relating to Senegambia.

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Examples

  • 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.

    West Africa Resources 2007

  • 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.

    The War with the Newts 2006

  • The island of Gorée, off the Senegambian coast, became a staging area for Dutch trade in 1594–95.

    18th and Early 19th Centuries 2001

  • By the 16th century, Kaabu was the dominant power in the Senegambian region.

    2. Regions 2001

  • 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.

    2. Regions 2001

  • Influenced by the earlier example of Nasir al-Din, Maalik Sy waged a holy war of his own in the Senegambian region.

    18th and Early 19th Centuries 2001

  • The great night arrived, and San Juan, dressed in its gala finery, wended its chattering way to the Senegambian séance.

    O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 Various

  • It is a cosmopolitan community, too -- as cosmopolitan as it can be and still retain its Senegambian motif.

    O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 Various

  • 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!

    Little Miss By-The-Day Lucille Van Slyke

  • 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" Various

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