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kawa

/ ˈkɑːwə /

noun

  1. protocol or etiquette, particularly in a Māori tribal meeting place
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of kawa1

Māori
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Example Sentences

Ain Kawa is known as a Christian district, with Ziggurat-style churches dotting the horizon.

But the most gorgeous of all flowering trees, as distinguished from creepers, is the sea-loving pohutu kawa.

He would first circle well away from the fire, with its super-heated air column, till they came to the gorge of the Kawa.

When a man smelled the horses, he would run to the camp and say, “The wind tells us the Kawa are coming.”

Here we found the headman, Kawa, of Mpalapala, quite as hospitable.

Formerly the process of chewing the kawa was performed by the young girls, and then only by those who had the finest teeth.

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