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A initiation ceremony for males among the Aborigines of New South Wales.
Examples of bora in a Sentence
The family gathered in this three-storeyed building, with its back windows looking over the Elbe and its front door opening on a great garden, was latterly Luther and his wife, their three sons and two daughters, Magdelena von Bora, Catherine's aunt, two orphan nieces and a grandniece.
The Bora wears the anga, otherwise he resembles the Meman.
It is called pachedi, potra or malaya by Meman, Bora and Khoja women.
One of the former, the Stadt Kirche, contains paintings by Lucas Cranach and the tomb of Catherine von Bora, the wife of Luther.
The Marwaris hold practically all the trade of Central India, with the exception of the Bora class of Mahommedans.
In the Karst it is liable to sudden and violent changes, and especially to the bora, a fierce N.N.E.
Having a distinctive chrome grille, the Jetta is longer, wider and higher than the Bora.
Briefly, the chief fish of Japan are the bream (tai), the perch (suzuki), the mullet (bora), the rock-fish (hatatate), the grunter (oni-o-koze), the mackerel (saba), the sword-fish (tachi-uwo), the wrasse (kusabi), the haddock (tara), the flounder (karei), and its congeners the sole (hiranie) and the turbot (ishi-garei), the shad (namazu), the salmon (shake), the mash, the carp (koi), the funa, the gold fish (kzngyo), the gold carp (higoi), theloach (dojo), the herring (nishin) the iwashi (Clu pea melanosticta), the eel (unagi), the conger eel (anago), the coffer-fish (hako-uwo), the fugu (Tetrodon), the ai (Plecoglossus altivelis), the sayori (Heminamphus sayoni), the shark (same), the dogfish (maiiuka-zame), the ray (e), the sturgeon (chO-lame) and the maguro (Thynnus sibi).
From cruise deals to destinations like Tahiti, Bora Bora or Belize, there are plenty of places to from in their travel destinations.
After a day of rest, the couple jetted off to French Polynesia with a honeymoon destination of Bora Bora.
Other options include an Amazon River cruise, a Bora Bora cruise or an Egyptian Nile cruise.
The 30-day fall voyage starts in the "City by the Bay" and travels to Sydney, Australia, with stops in Honolulu and Maui before heading across the Pacific to Bora Bora, Pago Pago, Fiji, Auckland, Wellington, and Christchurch.
For example, they offer a 35-day Circle Tahiti/Marquesas cruise that takes you to Seattle, Washington; Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; San Diego, California; various Hawaiian ports; Bora Bora, French Polynesia; and more.
Cold dry winds, often of great violence, occur in the Rhone valley (the Mistral), in Istria, and Dalmatia (the Bora), and in the western Caucasus.
The sea-coast is exposed to the fierce bora, or north wind, during the spring.
Girls, too, were scarred at puberty and had teeth knocked out, &c. The ceremonies - known to the Whites under the native generic term for initiatory rites, Bora - were much the same throughout Australia.
The climate is rather severe, and the southern part is exposed to the cold north-eastern wind, known as the Bora.
In both alike the scirocco, bringing rain from the south-west, is a prevalent wind, as well as the bora, the fearful north-north-easter of Illyria, which, sweeping down the lateral valleys of the Dinaric Alps, overwhelms everything in its path.
The mean depth of the sea is estimated at 133 fathoms. The bora (north-east wind), and the prevalence of sudden squalls from this quarter or the south-east, are dangers to navigation in winter.
The coasts are exposed to the prevailing winds, namely the Sirocco from the south-southeast, and the Bora from the north-east.
During the storm of the Peasants' War (13th of June 1525) Luther married Catherine von Bora, the daughter of a noble but impoverished family belonging to Meissen.