corroboree

or cor·rob·bo·ree

[ kuh-rob-uh-ree ]

/ kəˈrɒb ə ri /

noun Australian.

an assembly of Aborigines typified by singing and dancing, sometimes associated with traditional sacred rites.

a social gathering, especially of a boisterous nature.

Words nearby corroboree

corrin, corrival, corroborant, corroborate, corroboration, corroboree, corrode, corrody, corrosion, corrosive, corrosive sublimate

Origin of corroboree

First recorded in 1793, corroboree is from the Dharuk word ga-ra-ba-ra dance

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Examples from the Web for corroboree

The Corroboree began after dark, and the men shouted, danced, and carried on a mimic war to the glare of blazing bonfires.
Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life|Margaret Elizabeth Leigh Child-Villiers, Countess of Jersey
The two factors upon which the later drama depends may be detected even in the corroboree of the Australians.
Elements of Folk Psychology|Wilhelm Wundt
And we plan a corroboree at the colony after the Warlock is down, when there will be some excellently practiced singing.
Sand Doom|William Fitzgerald Jenkins
This evening Fisherman and Jackey showed Wittin corroboree dance.
Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria|William Landsborough

The crowd fled in the direction of the scene of their corroboree, but they did not stop there.
The Land of the Kangaroo|Thomas Wallace Knox

British Dictionary definitions for corroboree

corroboree

/ (kəˈrɒbərɪ) /

noun Australian

a native assembly of sacred, festive, or warlike character

informal any noisy gathering

Word Origin for corroboree

C19: from a native Australian language

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