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Early '60s "tribal" dance
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watusi
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Watusi or Watusis may refer to one of the following: Tutsi , an African ethnic group The Watusi , a solo dance from the early 1960s Watusi (album) , 1994 studio album by The Wedding Present Ankole-Watusi (cattle) , a cattle breed Watusi (film) , a 1959 ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bantu \Ban"tu\, prop. n. A member of one of the great family of Negroid tribes occupying equatorial and southern Africa. These tribes include, as important divisions, the Kafirs, Damaras, Bechuanas, and many tribes whose names begin with Aba-, Ama-, Ba-, ...
Usage examples of watusi.
It was then that the Bahutu of Ruanda rebelled, massacring thousands of Watusi, forcing the Watusi mwami, or king, and more than one hundred thousand of his followers south to Urundi.
As Marlowe walked down the wide sweep of stairs that led from the nightclub entrance to the heart of the bright darkness, the dance floor was dominated by a twenty-meter-tall image of Ann-Margret doing what looked like the Watusi to a dyged-up Buddy Holly song played close to the pain threshold.
Hindu and Tamil, Orange Irish and Green Irish, Watusi and Hutueverywhere.
Tall and slender as only a descendant of the Watusi could be, she owned a brace of doctorates in addition to her stars.
Naturally, there was concern that with the influx of Watusi, the same sort of bloody uprising would befall Urundi.
They could never get used to the Watusi habit of drinking animal blood, but the high jumps and acrobatic dancing of the tall, limber Africans never ceased to thrill them.
In 1972, when the Bahutus revolted against the Watusi, and one friend took up arms against the other, Catherine was appalled.