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Definition of Tabus
1. tabu [v] - See also: tabu
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tabus
Literary usage of Tabus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1901)
"... Cuchulainn or Conchobhar cycle, and the Finn or Ossianic cycle, we find that
it is in the former cycle that geasa or tabus play the more prominent part. ..."
2. A Residence of Twenty-one Years in the Sandwich Islands by Hiram Bingham (1848)
"Origin of the race and of their tabus.—Character of their Religion.—Relation to
other Tribes.—Prediction of a new Religion.—Parentage and childhood of ..."
3. An Account of the Polynesian Race: Its Origins and Migrations, and the by Abraham Fornander, John F. G. Stokes (1880)
"To the influence of this period may be attribted the increased stringency of the
tabus, and probably the introduction, or at least more general application, ..."
4. Plane Trigonometry and Tables by George Albert Wentworth (1902)
"A tabus OF THE ANGLES Which every Point and Quarter Point of the Compass makes
with the Meridian. ..."
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