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bora ground en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (Australia) A sacred patch of land where a bora is carried out.
    • [A] bora ground near Lake Barracoota on the Victorian and New South Wales border indicates that the area was a planned ceremonial grove. 2018, Bruce Pascoe, Dark Emu, Scribe, published 2020, page 139:
    • They came here to the place of their old bora ground / Where now the many white men hurry about like ants. 1964, Oodgeroo Noonuccal, ‘We Are Going’, in Heiss & Minter, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 43

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