Definitions
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- noun A traditional
Fijian cottage with a steepthatched roof and wide windows.
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Examples
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In the middle of the town stood the king's house, and directly opposite was the "bure," or temple.
The Cannibal Islands Captain Cook's Adventure in the South Seas 1859
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Properly, 'Le Moine Bourru,' the ghost of a monk dressed in drugget ( 'bure').
Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini Benvenuto Cellini 1535
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The bed is inside a balé/fale/bure on a private tropical beach with palm trees swaying in the wind.
Angels' Pawn is out! Psst...something cool in the post [Edited] Nalini Singh 2009
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Take the new consumer protection bure aucracy; the protection that consumers of subprime mortgage needed was from a Congress that pushed them, and from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac which bought them.
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PSC * boohare Southern Cushitic Ma'a bure "short rains"; Proto-PNECB * - bUli "short rains, lesser rains"; e.g.,
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Breakfast was sitting outside the main bure eating tropical fruit and looking out over the lagoon towards the reef.
Journal 16 August Alex Allan 2009
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When I walked out of our bure, I felt content, beautiful, and so at peace.
sTORI Telling Tori Spelling 2008
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The resort accommodates just 14 couples at a time, and each private bure, or thatched-roof cottage, has an outdoor verandah and four-poster bed.
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I will quit posting your ridiculous assertion ONLY when admit to whipping up bure bs.
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The damp bure slapped and chafed against him as he walked.
Ship Of Magic Hobb, Robin 1998
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