bure
noun
a traditional Fijian style of house.
bures
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pluralof bure.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
