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tutu

1

[ too-too; French ty-ty ]

noun

, plural tu·tus [too, -tooz, t, y, -, ty].
  1. a short, full skirt, usually made of several layers of tarlatan or tulle, worn by ballerinas.


Tutu

2

[ too-too ]

noun

  1. Des·mond (Mpi·lo) [dez, -m, uh, nd , uh, m-, pee, -loh], 1931–2021, South African Anglican clergyman and civil rights activist: Nobel Peace Prize 1984; archbishop of Cape Town 1986–96.

tutu

1

/ ˈtuːtuː /

noun

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


tutu

2

/ ˈtuːtuː /

noun

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

Tutu

3

/ ˈtuːtuː /

noun

  1. TutuDesmond1931MSouth AfricanRELIGION: clergyman 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

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Word History and Origins

Origin of tutu1

Borrowed into English from French around 1925–30

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Word History and Origins

Origin of tutu1

from French, changed from the nursery word cucu backside, from cul , from Latin cūlus the buttocks

Origin of tutu2

Māori

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Example Sentences

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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