bure
Americannoun
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bures
plural
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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
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 Sir James George Frazer
So is mony wymmon. on hyre fader bure.
From Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts by Joseph Hall
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 Walter W. (Walter William) Skeat
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
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 Sir James George Frazer
Ah seoþþen mony mon By-yet bures & halle, Forþi þe wrecche soule Schal into pyne falle.
From Erthe Upon Erthe by Various
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 Sir James George Frazer
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