"pagne" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from French pagne. Doublet of pan, pane, and pannus.",
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          "ref": "1997, Paul Tiyambe Zeleza, A Modern Economic History of Africa: The nineteenth century, page 286",
          "text": "In Senegal the local cloth currency, pagne, made of tama, or strips, was increasingly supplemented by French imported indigo-dyed cloth from India called guinee . The guinee was used as currency in lower Senegal. In upper Senegal it became a larger unit equivalent to a number of pagnes. The exchange rate between guinee, pagnes, and francs became more complicated from the 1830s as a result of excessive imports of guinees and francs.",
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          "ref": "1998, Judy Rosenthal, Possession, Ecstasy, and Law in Ewe Voodoo, page 204",
          "text": "If a woman wears her sister's pagne [cloth] to go and have sexual intercourse with a man, she has committed afodegbe. This happened to the wife of a sofo recently. She took her sister's pagne, went and stayed with her husband, and then took the pagne back to her sister. As her sister's husband [the husband of the woman who took the pagne] is a sofo, the vodu caught her sister [the woman whose pagne was taken] right away. She was ill.",
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          "ref": "2011, Kris Holloway, Monique and the Mango Rains",
          "text": "When young girls are first learning how to wear a pagne, sometimes we sew straps onto the corners so the pagne can be tied and doesn't fall down if they don't wrap it right.",
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          "ref": "2016, Nina Sylvanus, Patterns in Circulation: Cloth, Gender, and Materiality in West Africa, page 2",
          "text": "Pagne is part of the transfer of wealth from a prospective groom to his intended wife prior to marriage or the inheritance a woman leaves for her daughters.",
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        "A length of wax-print fabric made in West Africa, worn as a single wrap or made into other clothing, and serving as a form of currency."
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  "word": "pagne"
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          "text": "In Senegal the local cloth currency, pagne, made of tama, or strips, was increasingly supplemented by French imported indigo-dyed cloth from India called guinee . The guinee was used as currency in lower Senegal. In upper Senegal it became a larger unit equivalent to a number of pagnes. The exchange rate between guinee, pagnes, and francs became more complicated from the 1830s as a result of excessive imports of guinees and francs.",
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          "text": "If a woman wears her sister's pagne [cloth] to go and have sexual intercourse with a man, she has committed afodegbe. This happened to the wife of a sofo recently. She took her sister's pagne, went and stayed with her husband, and then took the pagne back to her sister. As her sister's husband [the husband of the woman who took the pagne] is a sofo, the vodu caught her sister [the woman whose pagne was taken] right away. She was ill.",
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