whydah

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

Alteration of the first component of widow bird, after Whydah (now Ouidah) in Benin.

Whydah and its Deity, 29th November 1863 48. — The Life of Sir Richard Burton, Thomas Wright
The Dahomey people have every advantage, being supplied with firearms, and even cannon, by the rascally white traders at Whydah, the port of Dahomey. — By Sheer Pluck: A Tale of the Ashanti War, G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
Commander Forbes, R. N., in his book on Dahomey, says that a boy and girl were decapitated and buried with him, and that three men were sacrificed on the beach at Whydah. — Captain Canot; Or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver, Theodore Canot

whidah, widow bird

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