Wiktionary
a. Of or pertaining to the state of Dahomey (later, Benin). n. A native or inhabitant of Dahomey.
Usage examples of "dahomeyan".
The Dahomeyans believed that human sacrifices were messengers to the gods, and despatched about 500 each year, about a tenth of whom were killed at the "annual custom", as the great ritual slaughter festival was called.
King Gezo, a liberal ruler by Dahomeyan standards, made £60,000 a year from the slave trade, according to Royal Navy intelligence estimates, and also reorganised the army of Amazons, which had previously been composed of female criminals, unfaithful wives, etc.
I knew they were talking about me, particularly a smooth-faced but old African type, Dahomeyan or Ghanaian, I think, with his very young, very plump, very jeweled wife.
He was Akande Erin, a massive Dahomeyan who had spent thirty years operating a jungle riverboat.
It's one-fourth Harlem blacks who died between 1960 and 1980, you know, and one-eighth eighteenth-century Dahomeyan blacks.
They's got it in for the Second Chancers, you know, and they got him and tortured him, with the help a some a them African niggers, the Dahomeyans, who used to torture a dozen people before breakfast every day, according to what I heard.
They's got it in for the Second Chancers, you know, and they got him and tortured him, with the help a some a them African niggers, the Dahomeyans, who used to tor ture a dozen people before breakfast every day, according to what I heard.
Out of curiosity he counted the beat-pattern of one of the numbers and identified it as being in seventeen-four tune, the ancient Dahomeyan rhythm of him against hunpi, child against mother drum.