bure
Americannoun
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a traditional Fijian style of house.
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a vacation house in a Fijian resort.
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The resort is on its own island, a five square mile paradise off of Suva where guests can scuba or snorkel through a marine preserve, accessed directly in front of their bure.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 31, 2015
Go to breakfast, drink coffee, eat eggs, go back to bure, and take a nap 'til 10:00 a.m.
From Time Magazine Archive
That day ye pranc’d wi’ muckle pride, When ye bure hame my bonnie bride: An’ sweet an’ gracefu’ she did ride, Wi’ maiden air!
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert
So is mony wymmon. on hyre fader bure.
From Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts by Hall, Joseph
The gud knycht wich that the Red armys bure And in the feild maid the diſcumfiture, The whilk the flour of knychthed may be cold, 1580 He thinkith hyme to haue of his houſhold.”
From Lancelot of the Laik A Scottish Metrical Romance by Skeat, Walter W. (Walter William)
As competitors arrived to a flat ocean, they dumped their board bags in their bures and made their way to the bar to catch up with friends.
From Time Magazine Archive
The local name for these bonfires is bures.
From Balder the Beautiful, Volume I. A Study in Magic and Religion: the Golden Bough, Part VII., The Fire-Festivals of Europe and the Doctrine of the External Soul by Frazer, James George, Sir
But the Sunday is called the Sunday of the brandons, bures, bordes, or boidès, according to the place.
From Balder the Beautiful, Volume I. A Study in Magic and Religion: the Golden Bough, Part VII., The Fire-Festivals of Europe and the Doctrine of the External Soul by Frazer, James George, Sir
Ah seoþþen mony mon By-yet bures & halle, Forþi þe wrecche soule Schal into pyne falle.
From Erthe Upon Erthe by Various
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