ashoebi

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ashoebi (uncountable)

  1. Clothes made from the same fabric to be worn by several people during a festive occasion in Sierra Leone.
    • 1987, John Wallace Nunley, Moving with the face of the devil: art and politics in urban West Africa:
      The women wore long uniform dresses or ashoebi of brown print; their hair was decorated with cowrie shells to complement the fancy masquerade.
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