Both Uses of
mane
in
Listening for Lions
- I told him of the lion that had carried away small children and how the lion had been hunted down and a mask made of his mane and a great ngoma held to both celebrate and mourn his death.†
Book 2 *mane = long coarse hair on an animal
- It was plump, well-fed, and all white except for a reddish brown mane.†
Book 3
Definitions:
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(1)
(mane) long coarse hair such as that which grows around a lion's head or on the back of a horse's neck
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely, mane can refer to long coarse hair on another animal; or even to a person's hair.