shweshwe

alternative seshweshwe

1. uncountableA patterned South African fabric used mainly for women's clothing.

   He employs 40 Sotho women to cut and make traditional Shweshwe dresses — from fabric manufactured In England and in Bisho, near East London.

   1989, Southern Africa Today

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   But Ms. Katsaras always keeps the series’s central character, the private investigator Precious Ramotswe (Jill Scott, above), the focus of attention with colorful dresses and head scarves made of shweshwe, the traditional South African fabric known for its pulsating motifs.

   2009 June 7, Margy Rochlin, “Jo Katsaras: ‘No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency’”, in New York Times

   The white shift is the plainest thing in my wardrobe, but I've touched it up with clunky beads and a shweshwe headwrap, with the perfect refugee touch, a red-, blue- and white-checked rattan carrier bulging with the weight of an exceptionally grumpy Sloth.

   2010, Lauren Beukes, chapter 5, in Zoo City, Jacana Media, →ISBN, page 34