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  • noun Plural form of hula.

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Examples

  • Brown, hungry and thirsty, half out of his head from weakness and suffering, could lie among the rocks with equanimity and listen to the tinkling of ukuleles and guitars, and the hulas and himines of the Huahine women.

    THE DEVILS OF FUATINO 2010

  • He has created numerous nontraditional hulas that use music ranging from Delibes to techno, from popular songs like "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" to "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face."

    George Heymont: Na Lei Hulu I Ka Wekiu Celebrates 25 Years of Hula in San Francisco George Heymont 2010

  • I was practicing it today and I am very curios to know if the hulas you use for this one are smaller than the normals ones?

    Hooping.org | Blog | Six Hoop Arabesque 2009

  • And when she strummed the guitar and sang liquid, velvety Hawaiian hulas, he sat entranced.

    Chapter 6 2010

  • And the nights, the perfumed nights, the chanting of the meles and the dancing of the hulas, and the big

    ON THE MAKALOA MAT 2010

  • After a time, in which all at the piano had sung Hawaiian hulas, Paula sang alone to her own accompaniment.

    CHAPTER XIV 2010

  • Like many Polynesian cultures, Hawaii was a society whose history was handed down to younger generations through song, chant, and dance by tribal kumu hulas.

    George Heymont: The Music and Its Message: Songs of Protest and Cultural Identity George Heymont 2011

  • Then, with strumming and tumtuming, the live cigarette laid aside to the imminent peril of polished wood, his full baritone would roll out in South Sea hulas and sprightly French and Spanish songs.

    BY THE TURTLES OF TASMAN 2010

  • Like many Polynesian cultures, Hawaii was a society whose history was handed down to younger generations through song, chant, and dance by tribal kumu hulas.

    George Heymont: The Music and Its Message: Songs of Protest and Cultural Identity George Heymont 2011

  • Saxon was genuinely shocked when some of them, even the more matronly, danced hulas on the sand.

    CHAPTER VIII 2010

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