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(historical) A former country in Africa, located in present-day Benin. quotations
The way other children hear tell of Red Riding Hood and Goldilocks, I heard of this ‘Black Sparta’, the noble kingdom of Dahomey, fighting to hold off the French to the very end.
2016, Zadie Smith, Swing Time, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, pages 360–361