Definitions

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  • adjective Of a family of Australian Aboriginal languages of Western Australia.

Etymologies

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From Southwest Pama-Nyungan kartu ("man").

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Examples

  • People might name him anything they wished, but he was what he was, and he would with the aid of the Merciful One accomplish what he had come here for: Find Hari, or Hari's bones, and return them to Kartu.

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  • "In Kartu, people who see ghosts are burned as witches or banished from town, which is the same as being burned, because you'll die anyway."

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  • He might never come back, and she would be alone, pregnant, abandoned in a foreign land, the very thing she had feared most when she left Kartu.

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  • In Kartu, they had laughed at her appetite for tales.

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  • He had that interesting nose, which none of the other Qin had; they had blunter, shorter noses, more like those of Kartu people.

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  • He had taken their politeness for companionship before, having known so little companionship in Kartu.

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  • In Kartu, a married woman must be prudent in how she walked about town, lest gossip destroy her reputation.

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  • Mai blushed, not liking to look stupid; it was the worst thing people had said of her in Kartu.

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  • That means it's likely that the commander of Kartu knew of the treaty, and knew that the emperor was now our ally.

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  • The council met only when the rulers of Kartu called in the leading men of the town to inform them of new regulations to be implemented.

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