Crossword-Solution: TAPU
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| TAPU | anagram | PATU, PAUT, PUTA, TPAU, TUPA, UPAT, UPTA |
We have 3 clues for the answer “TAPU”
| Clue | Answers |
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| MAORI taboo | 1 answer |
| Forbidden (var.) | 2 answers |
| Taboo | 64 answers |
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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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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with TAPU (5)
Plant we, then, here at Paea, a garden of excellent fruits; Plant we bananas and kava and taro, the king of roots; Let the pigs in Paea be tapu {25} and no man fish for a year; And of all the meat in Tahiti gather we threefold here.
Tapu and tapu and tapu, I know they are every one right; But the god of every tapu is not always quick to smite.
See them, the drooping of hams! behold me the blinking crew: Fifty spears they cast, and one of fifty true! And you, O priest, the foreteller, foretell for yourself if you can, Foretell the hour of the day when the Vais shall burst on your clan! By the head of the tapu cleft, with death and fire in their hand, Thick and silent like ants, the warriors swarm in the land.” And they tell that when next the sun had climbed to the noonday skies, It shone on the smoke of feasting in the country of the Vais.
Such ruins are tapu {29} in the strictest sense; no native must approach them; they have become outposts of the kingdom of the grave.
The devil-fish, it seems, were growing scarce upon the reef; it was judged fit to interpose what we should call a close season; for that end, in Polynesia, a tapu (vulgarly spelt ‘taboo’) has to be declared, and who was to declare it? Taipi might; he ought; it was a chief part of his duty; but would any one regard the inhibition of a Beggar on Horse-back? He might plant palm branches: it did not in the least follow that the spot was sacred.