Dahomey
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Fon dã homè (“belly of Dã; snake's belly”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Dahomey
- (historical) A former country in Africa, located in present-day Benin.
- 2016, Zadie Smith, Swing Time, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, pages 360–361:
- The way other children hear tell of Red Riding Hood and Goldilocks, I heard of this ‘Black Sparta’, the noble kingdom of Dahomey, fighting to hold off the French to the very end.