Crossword-Solution: EFATESE
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
ERAA
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with EFATESE (2)
Macdonald likewise remarks, in his account of the Efatese of the New Hebrides, that the idea that children are more closely related to the mother than to the father is an idea perfectly natural among a polygynous people.[589] It is a customary arrangement in polygynous families that each wife has a hut for herself, where she lives with her children; but even where this is not the case, mother and children naturally keep together as a little sub-family.
Brough Smyth, “is in fact but an enlargement of a family circle, and none within it can intermarry.”[1933] Among the Efatese, in whose clan-system the prohibition of incest is a fundamental law, each clan is regarded as one family.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1972).