Marabout vs Marabous - What's the difference?
marabout | marabous |
A Muslim holy man or mystic, especially in parts of North Africa.
*1977 , (Alistair Horne), A Savage War of Peace , New York Review Books 2006, p. 38:
*:one of their principal targets was the marabouts – or holy men and leaders of mystic orders – whom they accused both of corrupting the faith by their espousal of mysticism and of being the ‘domestic animals of colonialism’.
The tomb or shrine of such a person.