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Wa⋅tu⋅si

  [wah-too-see]
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–noun, plural -sis, (especially collectively) -si.
Tutsi.
Also, Wa⋅tut⋅si  [wah-toot-see] .

Tut⋅si

  [toot-see]
–noun, plural -sis, (especially collectively) -si.
a member of a very tall, slender, cattle-raising people of Rwanda and Burundi.
Also, Tusi, Tussi.
Also called Watusi, Watutsi.
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Tut·si   (tōōt'sē)   
n.   pl. Tutsi or Tut·sis also Watutsi or Wa·tut·sis or Watusi or Wa·tu·sis
A member of a Bantu-speaking people inhabiting Rwanda and Burundi.

[Kinyarwanda.]
Wa·tut·si   (wä-tōōt'sē)   
n.   pl. Watutsi or Wa·tut·sis also Watusi or Wa·tu·sis
Variants of Tutsi.

[Kinyarwanda : wa-, pl. human prefix + -tutsi, Tutsi.]
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Word Origin & History

Watusi 
racial group in Rwanda and Burundi (also called Tutsi), 1899. As the name of a popular dance, attested from 1964.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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