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Definition of kente in English: kentenoun ˈkɛntə-tē mass noun1A brightly coloured cloth consisting of separate strips sewn together, made in Ghana. Example sentencesExamples - Textiles are well developed, especially handwoven kente, and stamped adinkra cloths.
- For the Asante, the people most closely associated with kente, the cloth shifts from being a marker of class and regional origins to serving as ritual costume, nationalist statement, and marketing device.
- Busia, a poet and daughter of former Ghanaian Prime Minister Dr. K. A. Busia, relates the stories of three kente cloths in her collection.
- Wearing a red dress, hot pink headwrap, kente cloth, a silk fringed shawl, and an armful of bangles, she is fully sexual, a celebration of African American womanhood.
- The men wear hand woven kente cloths draped over the left shoulder, with a ready-made short sleeved shirt underneath.
- Most contemporary kente cloths reflect the ongoing experimentation with colors.
- Artists and objects travel between worlds, travel whose earliest documentation may be found in the affinities between African American quilting traditions and west African strip-woven cloth such as kente.
- Many African Americans decorate their high school and college graduation robes with scarves of kente cloth produced by Asante weavers.
- But several weeks later, after he sent out a large shipment of Ghanaian kente cloth, the recipient refused to pay.
- In the opening pages of his introduction, Ross alludes to the separate paths kente has taken in Ewe and Asante communities as he discusses the cloth's name itself.
- The conspicuous display of kente testifies to the widespread use and symbolism of this textile, once the ‘exclusive prerogative of Asante or other Akan chiefs’.
- For Asante royalty and Ewe chiefs, for members of Asafo military companies and keepers of village shrines, and for tourists and African American artists, kente communicates ideas about identity and community.
- African American couples want their big day to reflect their heritage and incorporate discreet Afrocentric touches, such as a broom jumping ceremony, libation or tuxedos with kente cloth accents.
- The variety of kente cloth that adorns every outfit he wears is legendary.
- 1.1count noun A long garment made from kente, worn loosely around the shoulders and waist.
肯特服（用肯特布做的长袍） Example sentencesExamples - Nigerians wear the boubou, Ghanaians the kente, former president Mobutu Sese Seko of the former Zaire made the safari suit his own.
OriginFrom Akan, literally 'cloth'. Definition of kente in US English: kentenoun-tē 1A brightly colored, banded material made in Ghana. 肯特布（色彩亮丽的加纳条纹布） Example sentencesExamples - Wearing a red dress, hot pink headwrap, kente cloth, a silk fringed shawl, and an armful of bangles, she is fully sexual, a celebration of African American womanhood.
- Busia, a poet and daughter of former Ghanaian Prime Minister Dr. K. A. Busia, relates the stories of three kente cloths in her collection.
- In the opening pages of his introduction, Ross alludes to the separate paths kente has taken in Ewe and Asante communities as he discusses the cloth's name itself.
- For the Asante, the people most closely associated with kente, the cloth shifts from being a marker of class and regional origins to serving as ritual costume, nationalist statement, and marketing device.
- Artists and objects travel between worlds, travel whose earliest documentation may be found in the affinities between African American quilting traditions and west African strip-woven cloth such as kente.
- But several weeks later, after he sent out a large shipment of Ghanaian kente cloth, the recipient refused to pay.
- The conspicuous display of kente testifies to the widespread use and symbolism of this textile, once the ‘exclusive prerogative of Asante or other Akan chiefs’.
- The variety of kente cloth that adorns every outfit he wears is legendary.
- Textiles are well developed, especially handwoven kente, and stamped adinkra cloths.
- The men wear hand woven kente cloths draped over the left shoulder, with a ready-made short sleeved shirt underneath.
- For Asante royalty and Ewe chiefs, for members of Asafo military companies and keepers of village shrines, and for tourists and African American artists, kente communicates ideas about identity and community.
- African American couples want their big day to reflect their heritage and incorporate discreet Afrocentric touches, such as a broom jumping ceremony, libation or tuxedos with kente cloth accents.
- Most contemporary kente cloths reflect the ongoing experimentation with colors.
- Many African Americans decorate their high school and college graduation robes with scarves of kente cloth produced by Asante weavers.
- 1.1 A long garment made from kente, worn loosely around the shoulders and waist.
肯特服（用肯特布做的长袍） Example sentencesExamples - Nigerians wear the boubou, Ghanaians the kente, former president Mobutu Sese Seko of the former Zaire made the safari suit his own.
OriginFrom Akan, literally ‘cloth’. |