bure
Americannoun
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bures
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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
It is beyond this grille and behind this plate, that the abbess of the Sepolte Vive receives her visitors, but she is even then veiled from head to foot in heavy folds of thick bure.
From Walks in Rome by Augustus J. C. Hare
That day, ye pranc'd wi' muckle pride, When ye bure hame my bonie bride: An' sweet an' gracefu' she did ride, Wi' maiden air!
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns
Hwa se haueð ehe of hope toward 185 se heh bure; gleadliche wule ha seruui ⁊ lihtliche alle wa · ⁊ alle teone þolien. wið eise ⁊ wið este ne buð me nawt bliSSe.
From Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts by Joseph Hall
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 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
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
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