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tutu

noun as in skirt

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Even then, Tutu was describing apartheid as less a structure than a metaphor for good and evil—a spiritual complement to Nelson Mandela’s more secular analysis.

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Tutu’s concern for structures as well as individuals helps explain why his ministry focused not only on the consequences of injustice, but also its causes.

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On the day that Mandela came out of prison, Tutu said he could now die a happy man.

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Tutu laughed—but he saw his role as one of Mandela’s apostles.

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A globally recognized icon of peaceful resistance to injustice, Tutu is best remembered for his courageous leadership of the Anglican Church in South Africa even as he spearheaded the fight against apartheid.

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She stands, dressed in a tutu, on one pointed foot in a heightened fifth position.

A tutu clad Swift refuses to pirouette with her fellow ballerinas, preferring to pelvic thrust like a rebel instead.

In November 2011, Carlton “Tutu” Archer of the Tooka gang was shot to death.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu was looking at the biblical length of South Africans waiting in line to vote that Wednesday morning.

As his longtime friend Bishop Desmond Tutu once told Sky News, “he needed that time in prison to mellow.”

After the death of the noble Osai Tutu, dissensions arose among his followers.

He died of a painful sickness, and was succeeded by his son, Osai Tutu Kwamina, in 1800.

And the little old man walked away, humming: "Tutu—turlututu—lututu!"

With the stiff tutu sticking out almost at right angles, elegance is quite impossible.

A man called Tutu and his wife Ila reached the island of Tutuila, and named it so by the union of their names.

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On this page you'll find 15 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to tutu, such as: dress, kilt, petticoat, sarong, culottes, and dirndl.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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