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Ashantee

Ashantee \Ash`an*tee"\, n.; pl. Ashantees. A native or an inhabitant of Ashantee in Western Africa.

Ashantee

Ashantee \Ash`an*tee"\, a. Of or pertaining to Ashantee.

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ashantee

n. (dated form of Ashanti English)

Usage examples of "ashantee".

Imagine an English captain, with a Boer company, campaigning in the Ashantee country, and you will have a fair idea of Pichou's position at Seven Islands.

Wilberforce’s, whose politics he admired, and had that famous correspondence with the Reverend Silas Hornblower, on the Ashantee Mission.

Your lighter boxes of family papers went up-stairs into a Barmecide room, that always had a great dining-table in it and never had a dinner, and where, even in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty, the first letters written to you by your old love, or by your little children, were but newly released from the horror of being ogled through the windows, by the heads exposed on Temple Bar with an insensate brutality and ferocity worthy of Abyssinia or Ashantee.