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Zanzibari, n. and a.|ˌzænzɪˈbɑːrɪ|
[f. Zanzibar, name of an island off the east coast of Africa, now part of Tanzania + -i.]
A. n. A native or inhabitant of Zanzibar.
B. adj. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Zanzibar or its people.
1888G. W. Brooke Let. 18 July in M. E. Herbert Afr. Slave Trade (1890) 12 The Zanzibaris express horror and disgust at the bare idea of associating with them. Ibid. 13 The women and children are hurried off to the Zanzibari camps. 1890W. Booth In Darkest Eng. i. i. 12 Mr. Stanley's Zanzibaris lost faith. 1917G. B. Shaw in Daily Express 28 Nov. 3/2 When the Sultan of Zanzibar ordered the admiral of his second-hand penny steamboat to go out and sink the British fleet, and the poor devil actually went, we laughed... No doubt Ireland, north and south, teems with Zanzibari courage. 1959Daily Tel. 1 Dec. 8/6 It is uphill work to persuade the Zanzibaris to make a partial switch to other products, which they could fairly easily do in their fertile island. 1966D. Wilson Quarter of Mankind xvi. 205, I have sat on a train in Manchuria and heard Zanzibari visitors ask their guides why colonialism had not yet been expelled from Hong-kong. 1975Nat. Geographic Apr. 501/1 Towering above all a tree bearing tiny reddish buds—the famous cloves, basis of the Zanzibari economy. 1985Daily Tel. 20 Aug. 4/7 Zanzibaris with foreign exchange were allowed to import essential goods. |