kawa

British  

/ ˈkɑːwə /

noun

1. protocol or etiquette, particularly in a Māori tribal meeting place

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Etymology

Origin of kawa

Māori

Example Sentences

“The simple kawa in the traditional language was not enough for me. I wanted to find a new symbol to express the word river.”

From Washington Post • Mar. 4, 2021

The simple kawa in the traditional language was not enough for me.

From Time Magazine Archive

"This is kawa, the accepted calligraphic character for river," she says, deftly sketching three short vertical strokes.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ikiru toyota na harakiri sashimi rashomon ne kawa saki ima samurai mishima to nippon hai...

From Time Magazine Archive

The kawa is a very fluid substance, not very inviting in appearance at any time, but still less so when one has witnessed the mode of preparing it.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume III (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl Ritter von