Zulu (zolo)

and a. [Also Zooloo; S. African.] I. n. A member of a warlike and superior branch of the Kafir race of South Africa, divided into many tribes. In the beginning of the nineteenth century several tribes of Zulus established a kingdom including the present British colony of Natal and the country north of it called Zululand, which was broken up and mostly absorbed by the British and the Boers during a succe ion of wars ending in 1883. II. a. Of or pertaining to the Zulus: as, the Zulu language (a principal member of the Bantu group of languages) or government. - Zulu cloth, a fine twilled woolen cloth used as a background for embroidery. Dict . of Needlework .