desmond tutu









desmond tutu


< /əmˈpi loʊ/, born 1931, South African Anglican clergyman and civil-rights activist: Nobel Peace Prize 1984; archbishop of Cape Town since 1986.

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  1. British informal a university degree graded 2:2 (second class lower bracket)Often shortened to: Desmond

noun

  1. Desmond . born 1931, South African clergyman, noted for his opposition to apartheid: Anglican Bishop of Johannesburg (1984–86) and Archbishop of Cape Town (1986–96); in 1995 he became leader of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, established to investigate human rights violations during the apartheid era. Nobel peace prize 1984

noun

  1. a very short skirt worn by ballerinas, made of projecting layers of stiffened sheer material

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  1. a shrub, Coriaria arborea, of New Zealand, having seeds that are poisonous to farm animals
n.

ballet skirt, 1910, from French tutu, alteration of cucu, infantile reduplication of cul “bottom, backside.”

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