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boubou

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bou·bou  (bb)
n.
A long, loose-fitting African garment.
[French, from Malinke bubu.]


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Dressed in his native Senegalese boubou, the 51-year-old human rights lawyer and former Foreign Minister declared to the exhausted delegates, assembled late on the last night of the Conference: "Here, I think, we can claim success".
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