bure
Americannoun
plural
bures-
a traditional Fijian style of house.
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a vacation house in a Fijian resort.
Example Sentences
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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
Ygarne beh to bure & lætte bed him makien.
From The Lay of Havelok the Dane by Unknown
Every Fijian town had at least one bure or temple, many of them had several.
From The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia by Frazer, James George, Sir
So is mony wymmon. on hyre fader bure.
From Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts by Hall, Joseph
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