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  • noun Plural form of shuka.

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Examples

  • Kenya does have its distinctive fabrics, most notably the checkered or striped shukas worn by the Maasai, the lessos, or khangas, which originated on the coast, and the kikoy.

    Kenyan 'National Dress' a Work in Progress 2010

  • Kenya does have its distinctive fabrics, most notably the checkered or striped shukas worn by the Maasai, the lessos, or khangas, which originated on the coast, and the kikoy.

    Kenyan 'National Dress' a Work in Progress 2010

  • Our Maasai guides, who live in dung covered huts and whose tribe measures wealth by the number of cattle, carry their phones along with their machetes under their shukas.

    Sally Thorner: Flashing in East Africa Sally Thorner 2011

  • Kenya does have its distinctive fabrics, most notably the checkered or striped shukas worn by the Maasai, the lessos, or khangas, which originated on the coast, and the kikoy.

    Kenyan 'National Dress' a Work in Progress 2010

  • Our Maasai guides, who live in dung covered huts and whose tribe measures wealth by the number of cattle, carry their phones along with their machetes under their shukas.

    Sally Thorner: Flashing in East Africa Sally Thorner 2011

  • His new enterprise: a luxury safari lodge named "Saruni" -- six secluded cabins replete with cedar cabinets, cypress floors and sunken stone showers, each with a wide veranda facing the Aitong Hills, with the occasional herd of zebra or waterbuck grazing below among the olive trees, and a staff of forty Maasai, dressed in traditional red shukas and jangling beads, serving as guides, chefs, servants and masseurs.

    Karin Badt: From Devils to Zebras: Riccardo Orizio's Safari in Kenya 2009

  • They were quiet, handsome men, their high cheekbones accentuated by the fire, their lean limbs jutting out of their blood-red shukas, their spears stuck into the ground before them, casting long shadows toward the trees.

    Dreams From My Father Obama, Barack 1995

  • Our Maasai guides, who live in dung covered huts and whose tribe measures wealth by the number of cattle, carry their phones along with their machetes under their shukas.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Sally Thorner 2011

  • The graduation of the girls who will have taken part in the alternative rite of passage, will be held after the run where they will be recognized with certificates, crowns and shukas.

    Marketwire - Breaking News Releases 2010

  • I'm loving their shukas and considering buying one to use as a table cloth for a beach table in Florida.

    TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2009

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