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Rastafari (iou)



Rastafari adjective & noun. Also Ras Tafari. M20.
[from Ras Tafari, the name by which Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia (1892-1975) was known between 1916 and his accession in 1930.]
A. adjective. Designating or pertaining to a sect originating in Jamaica, regarding black people as the chosen people and former Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia as God. M20.
b. noun. Pl. same, -s. A member of this sect, a Rastafarian. M20.
Rastafarism noun = RASTAFARIANISM M20.