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Tusi

noun
Tu·si
variants: or less commonly Tussi \ˈtüsē, -si \ or Tutsi \ˈtüts- \
plural Tusi or Tusis also Tussi or Tussis or Tutsi or Tutsis

Definition of Tusi 

: the ruling and cattle-owning class of the Rundi in Urundi in East Africa who presumably are cognate with the Hima people northward and whose extreme average height suggests an affinity with the Nilotes

— called also Watusi

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