Crossword clues for muti
muti
Wiktionary
n. 1 Traditional African medicine. 2 (context by extension English) Any medicine.
Wikipedia
Muti is a term for traditional medicine in Southern Africa as far north as Lake Tanganyika. The word muti is derived from the Zulu word for tree, of which the root is -thi. In Southern Africa, the word muti is in widespread use in most indigenous African languages, as well as in South African English and Afrikaans where it is sometimes used as a slang word for medicine in general.
Muti may refer to:
- muti, a term used in southern Africa for 'medicine'
- Muti, an Italian family name:
- Ornella Muti, actress
- Riccardo Muti, conductor
- Ettore Muti, an Italian Fascist politician
- Palazzo Muti, an historic house in Rome
- Villa Muti in Frascati, Italy
- Al-Muti, an Abbasid Caliph in Baghdad
- Muti, Estonia, village in Tori Parish, Pärnu County, Estonia
Usage examples of "muti".
He had called at the Albergo Luna earlier on his way back from the Palazzo Muti, intending to claim a partial recovery from the illness that had supposedly prevented him accompanying Estelle on her afternoon tour with Buckthorn and Silverwood, but neither they nor she had been there.
Palazzo Muti, Roman residence of the self-styled King James III of England and VIII of Scotland, was a handsomely columned and pedimented gold-stuccoed building at the northern end of the Piazza dei Santi Apostoli, close to the heart of the old city.
He had been left to cramp his haunches during those hours on a narrow chair in a draughty passage near the main stairway of the Palazzo Muti, while a contrasting assortment of whispering clerics, grumbling Scots and pinch-mouthed servants passed him heedlessly by.
In the looking-glass world of the Palazzo Muti, it was important to remember who was notionally a king and who was not.
It was early evening at the Palazzo Muti and the king whose kingdom its walls comprised had intended to visit the nursery before dinner to dandle his celebrated infant.
James Edgar, surveying him across his desk at the Palazzo Muti half an hour later.