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Dahomey

noun
1.
A country on western coast of Africa; formerly under French control.  Synonyms: Benin, Republic of Benin.






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"Dahomey" Quotes from Famous Books



... other more peaceful "missions" added to the French possessions a vast territory of some 800,000 square kilometres in the basin of the Niger. Meanwhile disputes had occurred with the King of Dahomey, which led to the utter overthrow of his power by Colonel Dodds in a brilliant little campaign in 1892. The crowned slave-raider was captured and sent ...
— The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.) • John Holland Rose

... them. An absolutely new prospect is a great happiness, and I can still get this any afternoon. Two or three hours' walking will carry me to as strange a country as I expect ever to see. A single farm-house which I had not seen before is sometimes as good as the dominions of the King of Dahomey. There is in fact a sort of harmony discoverable between the capabilities of the landscape within a circle of ten miles' radius, or the limits of an afternoon walk, and the threescore years and ten of human life. It will never become quite familiar ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 9, No. 56, June, 1862 • Various

... look here," he commenced, collecting some crumbs and bits of biscuit, which he began to place about on the table. "To the north and east of us is the slave-coast. Inland, due north, or thereabouts, is Dahomey, the king of which is something like a king, for he can cut off his subjects' heads at pleasure; he has got several regiments of Amazons, who fight most furiously, besides other troops armed with matchlocks. To the east is the Yoruba country, and to the south, ...
— The Three Midshipmen • W.H.G. Kingston



Words linked to "Dahomey" :   African nation, ewe, Niger River, Niger, capital of Benin, Porto Novo, Cotonou, Africa, African country, Beninese



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