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camwood [ˈkæmˌwʊd]
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1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) a W African leguminous tree, Baphia nitida, whose hard wood was formerly used in making a red dye 2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Forestry) the wood of this tree [perhaps from Temne] ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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On ordinary days, this consists of a "walking dress" a wrapper made out of a printed cotton cloth; a woven shawl or a commercially produced towel draped over the left shoulder of an otherwise nude upper body; a jute cap; and camwood paste rubbed on bare feet. Aluko His worshipful Majesty One Man, One Wife Kole Omotoso The Combat Festus iyayi Violence Ifeoma Okoye Men Without Ears Cyprian Ekwensi People of the City Burning Grass Jagua Nana Wole Soyinka The Interpreters The Trials of Brother Jero (Dj Jero's Metamorphosis(Drama) Camwood on the Leaves Death and the King's Horseman Onuora Nzekwu Blade Among the Boys Wand of Noble Wood John Munonye The Only Son Oil Man of Obanje T. Among other materials, these would have made use of white clay to invoke ancestral force from beyond the grave, and reddish camwood powder signaling transition and mediation--both instances of what art scholar Robert Farris Thompson calls "spirit-embodying potency" (Thompson, 117). |
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