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kanga

Etymology 1 n. (context Sikhism English) A comb, required to be worn at all times by Sikhs, one of the five Ks. Etymology 2

n. A colourful printed cotton garment worn by women in East Africa.

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Kanga (African garment)

The kanga (or khanga; from the old Bantu (Kiswahili) verb ku-kanga, to wrap or close), is a colourful garment similar to kitenge, worn by women and occasionally by men throughout the African Great Lakes region. It is a piece of printed cotton fabric, about 1.5 m by 1 m, often with a border along all four sides (called pindo in Swahili), and a central part (mji) which differs in design from the borders.

Kanga (comics)

The Kangas are a fiction species of kangaroos in the DC Multiverse. In Pre-Crisis continuity, Kangas were alien beings brought to Paradise Island by a tribe of star-faring Amazons who called themselves the Sky Riders of Nebulosa. The Amazons would ride on kangas for sport as well as using them to help with work on the island. Wonder Woman's Kanga was named Jumpa.

Usage examples of "kanga".

Nyandarua Station was moving down the eastern slopes of the Aberdare range: the Chaga was spread before me like a wedding kanga laid out on a bed.

Any of you -- except Rabbit and Owl and Kanga -- would have done the same.

She wears a kanga cloth of cotton, the type sold to tourists as a cover-up.

When he came back they saw one another first in the mirror she was standing before, tying a piece of Kanga cloth round her breasts over the yellow suit.

In May and June the other divisions cleared the Pave and Usambara mountains, reached Handeni and Kangata, and with naval assistance occupied Tanga, Pangani, Sadani Bay, and Bagamoyo in July and August almost without opposition.

Like Hillary, Kangas painted the various Clinton scandals as frame-ups, funded by shadowy, rightwing money men.

In May and June the other divisions cleared the Pave and Usambara mountains, reached Handeni and Kangata, and with naval assistance occupied Tanga, Pangani, Sadani Bay, and Bagamoyo in July and August almost without opposition.

They were headed for the barn, and the Kangas were penned up in a miserable three star systems, the nearest of them almost exactly one hundred light-years away.

The Kangas would never have wandered this far from the desperate defense of their three remaining systems unless they were engaged in something of supreme importance to their ultracautious race.

And, she was forced to admit, even if they succeeded in stopping the Kangas, the odds were that none of them would ever see Terra again.

But the Kangas and their Trolls wouldn't do that until they arrived at Sol, and they could not be permitted to arrive.

The Kangas had been glued to full power since detection, disdaining any tactical maneuvers as they followed the precise, preplanned course to their Takeshita Translation.

She couldn't even follow into normal-space to engage the Kangas there.

Fighter multi-dees were weaker than those of starships, but they had far lower Frankel Limits in partial compensation, and the Kangas had fled madly, weaving up and down the alpha and beta bands to evade her.

Human hardware surpassed the best the Kangas could build, but there were always tradeoffs.