Definitions
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- proper noun A tribe of
Vanuatu . - proper noun Their language, belonging to
Oceanic branch of theMalayo-Polynesian language family.
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Examples
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Our man from Big Nambas was known on the plantation as Bourbaki, and had enlisted two years ago.
Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific Felix Speiser 1914
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The district of the Big Nambas, to whose shores we had come, takes its name from the size of a certain article of dress, the "Nambas," which partly replaces our trousers, and is worn in different forms over the greater part of the archipelago, but nowhere of such size as here.
Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific Felix Speiser 1914
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The chiefs in Big Nambas seem to have felt this, and systematically opposed the intercourse with whites.
Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific Felix Speiser 1914
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