Crossword-Solution: TABU
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Tabu | n. & v. | See Taboo. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| TABU | anagram | ABUT, ATUB, BATU, BUTA, TAUB, TUBA |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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eruption
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Sentences with TABU (5)
They've a strange custom among them, Ralph, which is called _tabu_, and they carry it to great lengths.
The tabu would have been communicated by the contact of his hands, and so would have made anything touched by him unfit for human food.
But the tabu is itself a derivative of the unworthiness or moral incompatibility of labour; so that even when construed in this sense the conduct of the Polynesian chiefs is truer to the canon of honorific leisure than would at first appear.
The consumption of choice articles of food, and frequently also of rare articles of adornment, becomes tabu to the women and children; and if there is a base (servile) class of men, the tabu holds also for them.
With a further advance in culture this tabu may change into simple custom of a more or less rigorous character; but whatever be the theoretical basis of the distinction which is maintained, whether it be a tabu or a larger conventionality, the features of the conventional scheme of consumption do not change easily.
Quotes with TABU (1)
An even more pointed example of the the power of the silence tabu in libraries occurred in Duluth in 1981. The police were pursuing a fugitive from justice who ran into the public library. Uniformed police surrounded the building, and the library director was notified that only unobtrusive plainclothesmen were entering the building. Their instructions: “When you find him, overpower him. Quietly.” It was done, and only a few people in the crowded building saw a handcuffed man …
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, TIME, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 319 times in crossword archives (1952–2024).