Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A violent, cold, northeasterly winter wind on the Adriatic Sea.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A ceremony of the natives of eastern Australia by which a boy is admitted to the rights of manhood.
- noun The name given on the coasts of the Adriatic sea to a violent dry wind blowing from a northeasterly direction.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
initiation ceremony for males among the Aborigines of New South Wales. - noun A cold, often dry, northeasterly
wind which blows, sometimes in violent gusts, down from mountains on the eastern shore of theAdriatic Sea . It also applies to cold, squally, downslope winds in other parts of the world.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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'bora' ground once obtained, and the smoke from cannibal fires curled slowly upwards to the blue vault of heaven, is heard the cheerful ring of the blacksmith's hammer, the crack of the bullock-whip, as the team moves slowly onward beneath the weight of seven-feet canes, and the measured throb of machinery from the factory, where the crushed plant is yielding up its sweets between the inexorable iron crushers.
Australian Search Party Charles Henry Eden 1858
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July 21, 2010 at 12:19 pm my “most wanted to see” destinations are: Bora-bora, Indonesia and Greece!
the world is in the palm of our hands | Free People Clothing Boutique Blog 2010
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July 21, 2010 at 12:19 pm my “most wanted to see” destinations are: Bora-bora, Indonesia and Greece!
the world is in the palm of our hands | Free People Clothing Boutique Blog 2010
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One, send him to bora bora until after february 5.
Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Zogby: Obama Leads By Ten Points In New Hampshire 2009
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By the way, if clinton sent him to bora, bora along with penn, I submit she very may well have pulled off the primary.
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And ... .. it would have been better if penn was in bora bora.
Hillary Would Have Benefitted From Winner-Take-All Primaries 2009
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Good shut-up and go to bora, bora until November 5.
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Who knows, if this would have happened she might have been on a speaking engagement in bora bora and the vp would have had to deal with the crisis.
Obama Defends Axelrod's Comments About Bhutto Assassination And Hillary's Iraq Vote 2009
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This guy should take off with mr. bill to bora bora until the election is over.
Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Hillary Camp: We Do Not Condone Drug Comment In Any Way 2009
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I still say off to bora, bora with him to play with the natives with no press.
chained_bear commented on the word bora
"'... only you want to have two anchors out ahead almost to the bitter end if the bora sets in.'"
--P. O'Brian, The Hundred Days, 118
March 25, 2008
rolig commented on the word bora
I am skeptical of the etymology provided above (from the classical name of the north wind, Boreas). Almost certainly, the Italians of the northern Adriatic shores borrowed this word from their Slovene and Croatian neighbors, who call this wind burja, a word that goes back to Old Slavic, meaning "windstorm", and that shares the same Indo-European root as the English word furious.
September 7, 2011