Bora

From Gamilaraay būru.

Alternative forms

• Bora

Full definition of bora

Noun

1. A initiation ceremony for males among the Aborigines of New South Wales.

Synonyms

• burbung

Perhaps from a dialectal form of Italian borea ("north wind"), from Latin Boreās.

Noun

1. A cold, often dry, northeasterly wind which blows, sometimes in violent gusts, down from mountains on the eastern shore of the Adriatic Sea. It also applies to cold, squally, downslope winds in other parts of the world.
• 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 650:When the bora blew down from the mountains, announcing the winter, would he ride it on out of town?

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• boar