North Africanadj.n.

1819 Public Ledger & Daily Advertiser 30 Aug. 3/3 Prospectus of plan for forming a North African or Sudan Company, to be instituted for the purpose of establishing an extensive Commerce with, and laying open to British Enterprise, all the interior regions of North Africa

1832 Biblical Repertory & Theol. Rev. Jan. 21 In the north African Church..the Bishop made the sign of the cross.

1867 ‘Ouida’ Under Two Flags II. iii. 56 The blaze and heat of the North African day.

1895 Harper's Mag. Feb. 366/1 We shall not go far wrong in crediting France with 60,000 men..whose principal object is to discourage the North African Arabs from a war of independence.

1932 R. Kipling Limits & Renewals 321 His speech ran From pure Parisian to gross peasant, With interludes North African.

1961 E. Waugh Unconditional Surrender ii. v. 140 Stirred by the heavy North African wine de Souza's imagination rolled into action.

1999 Marie Claire Health & Beauty Sept. 63/2 I now go to the Turkish baths at the Paris mosque to be scrubbed and pummelled by the very large North African masseuses.

1829 Carmarthen Jrnl. 10 Apr. 1/5 According to the usual mode of reckoning Popes, his Holiness, the lately deceased Pope Leo XII. is the two hunderedth and fifty-second since Peter the Apostle. Of these 208 were natives of Italy,..2 North Africans, and 1 Englishman.

1851 Southern Q. Rev. July 219 The North Africans, who have intermarried with Arabs for ages, have produced Abyssinians, Nubians, Berbers.

1890 Catholic World Feb. 670 At the present day, in fact, sixty millions..of North Africans make their prayers to Allah and his Prophet.

1939 Man 39 118/1 Ilam being equivalent to Armi or Aramka, an ethnic term applied by the Kanuri of Bornu to white North Africans who were not Tura.

1962 P. Brickhill Deadline vi. 88 The noise made by four North Africans on a dais.

1992 N. Cohn Heart of World i. 6 In out of the cold came an itinerant North African.