bures

There were ten little cottage suites, called bures, lining the beach.

sTORI Telling Tori Spelling 2008

Dolphin Island (dolphinislandfiji.com) is a 13-acre private retreat that's just been done up, and sleeps just eight guests in four bures (traditional thatched houses).

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All guests are housed in bures, or thatched-roof huts.

In Pictures: Best Winter Beach Resorts Forbes.com Staff 2006

Guests stay in thatched-roof bures, or traditional cottages, which range in price from $1,632 per night to $2,390 per night.

© Necker Island Necker Island British... 2006

A patient with extensive bures is likely to be in shock and requires appropriate resuscitation.

Chapter 3 1989

For Gaul it was the jour de bures or fête deu brandons and for Germany Funkentag or Hallfeuer, because on that day the young people ran about the streets with burning torches (Nilles, II, 102).

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

Fijian notion of divinity (_kalou_), 440; two classes of gods, namely, divine gods and human gods or deified men, 440 _sq. _; temples (_bures_) 441 _sq. _; worship at the temples, 443; priests (_betes_), their oracular inspiration by the gods, 443-446; human sacrifices on various occasions, such as building a house or launching a new canoe, 446 _sq.

The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia James George Frazer 1897

All of its buildings and bures - or villas - were built in Bali and Java and then transported by ship.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

Its facilities include three rich-hued wood bures along with the main Bali guest house, with private decks attached to each of its four bedrooms.

CNN.com 2011

Our intimate resort has beautiful, comfortable bures, outstanding cuisine and offers a full range of adventure and cultural activities.

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