bora
nounnounattested in dialogue
An initiation ceremony for males among the Aboriginal people of New South Wales.
noun
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An initiation ceremony for males among the Aboriginal people of New South Wales.
Birribirai, a youth not yet admitted to a bora.
By far the most important among the ceremonies practised by the aborigines of New South Wales is the Bora, at which youths are initiated to manhood...
Then dancing out into the open he sparred round like a star performer in a Bora ceremony.
Etymology
From Gamilaraay būru.
noun
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A cold, often dry, northeasterly wind which blows, sometimes in violent gusts, down from mountains on the eastern shore of the Adriatic Sea. It also applies to cold, squally, downslope winds in other parts of the world.
When the bora blew down from the mountains, announcing the winter, would he ride it on out of town?
Etymology
Either from Serbo-Croatian bura (“downslope wind, northeast or ENE wind”), or from a dialectal form of Italian borea (“north wind”) from Latin Boreās.
Forms
- plural
- boras
bora · An initiation ceremony for males among the Aboriginal people of New South Wales.
Bora · An indigenous tribe of the Peruvian, Colombian and Brazilian…Bordeaux · The capital city of Gironde department, France; the capital…Borden · A surname.