Home › Words › S › shweshweshweshwe/ʃwɛʃwɛ/shweshwe means A patterned South African fabric used mainly for women's clothing.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, shweshwe ranks #32,841 of 42,747 for Qualifying.shweshwe is pronounced /ʃwɛʃwɛ/.EtymologyFrom the Sotho name Moshoeshoe, also spelled Mshweshwe.nounA patterned South African fabric used mainly for women's clothing.e.g.“He employs 40 Sotho women to cut and make traditional Shweshwe dresses — from fabric manufactured In England and in Bisho, near East London.” — 1989, Southern Africa Today:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).